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Meet Otto

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Published: Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:31

By Anthony Levandowski and Lior Ron

Highways are the backbone of America. They are the country’s original network, and have sparked new communities and businesses in their wake. Today, U.S. interstate highways total 222,000 miles and carry the 4.3 million commercial trucks that have become just as powerful a symbol of the American transportation system as the roads themselves.

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The Most Famous Abandoned Quarry in America

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Published: Monday, 12 September 2016 15:54

By Mark S. Kuhar

What is the most famous abandoned quarry in the United States? You could argue it is the Bellwood Quarry in northwest Atlanta, a former Vulcan Materials site.

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Mining Asteroids

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Published: Friday, 28 October 2016 10:40

By Mark S. Kuhar

Deep Space Industries announced its plans to fly the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. Prospector-1 will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, and investigate the object to determine its value as a source of space resources. This mission is an important step in the company’s overall plans to harvest and supply in-space resources to support the growing space economy.

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Caterpillar Sponsors NASA Robotic Mining Competition

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Published: Monday, 22 August 2016 09:57

By Mark S. Kuhar

On May 18-20, the seventh annual NASA Robotic Mining Competition was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Titusville, Fla. More than 45 university-level teams designed and built remote controlled mining robots to traverse a simulated Martian terrain.

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