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Robotics Expert Q&A;: Daniel H. Wilson
When he's not filing his bi-weekly column for PopularMechanics.com, PM's resident roboticist is out catching up with science fiction's broken promises.Previous Robotics Stories
| Robotics Expert Q&A;: Daniel H. Wilson When he's not filing his bi-weekly column for PopularMechanics.com, PM's resident roboticist is out catching up with science fiction's broken promises. (Published in the February 2007 issue)
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| To Practice for Mars, NASA Dives Deep Three miles off the coast of Florida, astronauts are preparing to land on the Moon and Mars by mounting an expedition to the Antlantic seafloor - in NOAA's Aquarius research laboratory. PM's SCUBA-diving surgeon Ken Kamler reports from NEEMO 9.
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| Astronaut Tom Jones on NASA's New CEV, and More: Techwatch (Published in the April 2006 issue)
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| DARPA Grand Challenge Winner Beer Bottle Pass is a 1.5-mile section of dirt road that snakes through the Lucy Gray Mountains of southwestern Nevada's Mojave high desert. On one side of the narrow track is a rock face; on the other, a 100-ft. drop-off. The pass demands respect from off-road drivers navigating the twists, turns a... (Published in the January 2006 issue)
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| Meet The MythBusters On MythBusters, our Discovery Channel show, we conduct scientific experiments to determine the truth of tall tales and urban legends. Here's one example: The story goes that an Air Force sergeant in Arizona attached a jet-assisted take off bottle--a military-grade auxiliary rocket used to generate e... (Published in the January 2006 issue)
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| The Top 50 Inventions of the Past 50 Years In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time. (Published in the December 2005 issue)
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| Videos From DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge Race |
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| Videos From DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge Trial |
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| DARPA 2005 Robotic Road Rally Preliminary Photos |
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The Truth About Hydrogen
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The Boy Mechanic
Culled from a half-century of Popular Mechanics issues (make that the first half of last century), The Boy Mechanic represents an age when imagination could conquer far more than the checkbook — when solving a problem was more satisfying than paying to have it go away.