February 17, 2005
- The Cassini spacecraft passes by Titan imaging a larger crater using its RADAR, and has the first close flyby of the moon Enceladus. (BBC)
- Researchers from the University of Michigan, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Delft University of Technology and unveiled robots that walk like people at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting . These robots walk by falling forward in a controlled manner, making movement very efficient compared to a robot like the Honda ASIMO; however, these new robots cannot climb stairs as ASIMO can. (EurekAlert!) (Science)
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