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NASA and TTH Use Carbon 3-D Printing to Create Seeker Spacecraft Inspection Robots

The Technology House (TTH), a product development service provider, has used Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) 3-D printing technology from Silicon-valley based Carbonto to help produce autonomous robotic systems as part of the SEEKER project for NASA. Costing $3 million, the SEEKER project from NASA comprises of two free-flying autonomous robots, Seeker and Kenobi, designed to

What a Research Mission Reveals About an Autonomous Future

What is left to map in the 21st century? Mostly underworlds, it turns out. One such underworld is the space beneath Antarctica’s Doston Ice Shelf, which a team of autonomous robots just spent a year mapping. While an entirely civilian and academic research mission, the project has valuable lessons about what long-term autonomous operations may

Deployment of Weaponized Artificial Intelligence and the “Terminator Conundrum”

Earlier this month, the Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov Group made a low-key announcement with frightening implications. The company revealed it had developed a range of combat robots that are fully automated and used artificial intelligence to identify targets and make independent decisions. The revelation rekindled the simmering, and controversial, debate over autonomous weaponry and asked