7451020 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.ibtimes.com/video-four-legged-italian-robot-you-cant-keep-down-2242691You can't keep a good robot down. HyQ2Max is a tough and powerful quadruped designed to get back on its feet when knocked over. It was built by roboticists from the Italian Institute of Technology. Four-legged, animal-like robots, they say, can cope better with hazardous environments than typical wheeled or tracked vehicles.Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:42:00 +0100ibtimes-mx-21fa27f6702bab66c4ff44df400b06ab20151229184200http://www.ibtimes.com/video-four-legged-italian-robot-you-cant-keep-down-2242691You can't keep a good robot down. HyQ2Max is a tough and powerful quadruped designed to get back on its feet when knocked over. It was built by roboticists from the Italian Institute of Technology. Four-legged, animal-like robots, they say, can cope better with hazardous environments than typical wheeled or tracked vehicles.Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:19:00 +0100ibtimes-21fa27f6702bab66c4ff44df400b06ab20151229181900http://www.afp.com/pt/noticia/ilha-de-trindade-um-laboratorio-ceu-aberto-cheio-de-desafios-para-exploradoresA Ilha da Trindade, a mais de mil quilômetros da costa brasileira, é um laboratório a céu aberto que atrai cientistas de todo o Brasil. Mas explorar este remoto território exige coragem e persistência para enfrentar imprevistos, terrenos acidentados, trilhas fechadas e uma onda que varre tudo com a força de um tsunami.Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:21:00 +0100afp-portugues-658ea810cc2a3e0ecb232cb903ea33fa20151229172100http://www.china.org.cn/world/2015-12/29/content_37418663.htmA 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit parts of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, the met office said. The quake's epicenter was determined at Afghanistan's Hindu Kush Mountain range with a focal depth of 186 km, the met office said.Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:03:00 +0100china.org.cn-afc4bb4e8d2d9bd991d641de5ab9262420151229160300