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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to Install Robotic and Positioning Technology at VRC

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to Install Robotic and Positioning Technology at VRC

Locata Corporation announced today that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) plans to install a Locata network as the core positioning technology in a $30 million upgrade soon to be under way at their famed Vehicle Research Center (VRC) near Washington DC. [More]

Opengear Introduces New Remote Management Solutions for Improved Business Continuity

Opengear, a leading provider of next-generation cellular out-of-band management solutions and console servers, today announced at Cloud Connect 2013 (#ccevent on Twitter) that it is launching built-in 4G LTE support for ... [More]
China National Grid Approves ZAP’s Robot and Automated Battery Swap and Recharge Station

China National Grid Approves ZAP’s Robot and Automated Battery Swap and Recharge Station

ZAP (ZAAP) an automotive company incorporated in California and headquartered in Santa Rosa, California announced that the battery Swap version of the E380 SUV has been approved by China National Grid for its battery swap stations in China, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. [More]
JAC’s Car Plant to be Operated by 166 Automatic Robots

JAC’s Car Plant to be Operated by 166 Automatic Robots

On the morning of January 5, 2013, JAC held its third passenger car plant completion ceremony, as well as the new SUV (S5) offline ceremony. JAC's passenger car plant reportedly has invested 2.18 billion yuan total, with an annual capacity of 240,000 units of cars for double shifts, and its equipment and technological processes have achieved an international advanced level. [More]
Siemens Acquires Invensys’ Rail Automation Business

Siemens Acquires Invensys’ Rail Automation Business

Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Invensys Rail, the rail automation business of Invensys for approximately €2.2 billion (£1.742 billion). At the same time, the company plans to divest its baggage handling, postal and parcel sorting activities. Both planned transactions are part of the recently launched "Siemens 2014" company program, which amongst others, is aimed at strengthening the company's core activities. With revenues of approximately £800 million, Invensys Rail is a leading software based rail signaling and control company. [More]

Carnegie Mellon University to Develop a Robotic System with High-Powered Lasers to Remove Coating from Aircrafts

Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Ogden Air Logistics Center ... [More]
Siemens Plans to Shift Focus on Automation Technology for Water Business

Siemens Plans to Shift Focus on Automation Technology for Water Business

Siemens has decided to reorganize its activities in the water business. The company intends to focus in the future on automation and drive solutions for the control of water applications for municipalities and industry. The Business Unit known as Siemens Water Technologies, which offers solutions for municipal and industrial water purification and wastewater treatment, is to be sold along with the corresponding service activities. [More]
Boomerang Systems to Provide RoboticValet Parking System to BrickellHouse Development

Boomerang Systems to Provide RoboticValet Parking System to BrickellHouse Development

Boomerang Systems, Inc., (OTCQB: BMER) a leading designer and manufacturer of automated robotic parking and self storage systems, announced today that it has executed an agreement to provide 480 parking spaces via its innovative RoboticValet™ Parking System to the BrickellHouse development in Miami, Fl. [More]

Teams at Carnegie Mellon University to Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge

Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University will field two teams in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge, a competition in which robots will perform complex, physically challenging tasks... [More]
New Robotic Lawn Mower to Reach European Markets Soon

New Robotic Lawn Mower to Reach European Markets Soon

Lawn-Mowers-Shop.co.uk is a leading online provider of lawnmowers within the UK market. With new models rolling out, retailers can provide their customers with the latest and most innovative range of mowers on offer. [More]
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