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Latest Robotics/Automation News

Mount Sinai and RPI to Develop Robot-Assisted System for Paralyzed People

Mount Sinai and RPI to Develop Robot-Assisted System for Paralyzed People

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced an affiliation agreement to collaborate on educational programs, research, and development of new diagnostic tools and treatments that promote human health. The alliance was commemorated in a signing ceremony on May 22, 2013. [More]
BIOTRONIK’s IMPACT Study Evaluates Home Monitoring for Early Detection of Atrial Fibrillation

BIOTRONIK’s IMPACT Study Evaluates Home Monitoring for Early Detection of Atrial Fibrillation

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced today that enrollment has been completed for the highly anticipated IMPACT study. The study aims to investigate whether the use of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring® in conjunction with anticoagulation can reduce the risks of stroke, systemic embolism and major bleeding in cardiac device patients. [More]
Navy's Triton UAV Powered by Rolls-Royce AE 3007 Engine Achieves First Flight

Navy's Triton UAV Powered by Rolls-Royce AE 3007 Engine Achieves First Flight

Rolls-Royce congratulates the US Navy for achieving its first flight with the Northrop Grumman Corporation-built MQ-4C Triton aircraft. [More]
Northrop Grumman and Davidson Technologies Enter U.S. Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé Agreement

Northrop Grumman and Davidson Technologies Enter U.S. Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé Agreement

Northrop Grumman Corporation has signed a U.S. Department of Defense mentor-protégé agreement with Davidson Technologies, a teammate on Northrop Grumman's Joint National Integration Center Research and Development Contract (JRDC). Under the JRDC, Northrop Grumman has led a world-class team to conduct ballistic missile defense system-level modeling and simulation, ground and flight test, wargame, training exercise, mission-critical operation and related analysis for more than 15 years. [More]
Hansen Medical's Magellan Robotic System to be Showcased at Annual Meeting of Vascular Surgeons

Hansen Medical's Magellan Robotic System to be Showcased at Annual Meeting of Vascular Surgeons

Hansen Medical, Inc., a global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced that it will exhibit its Magellan™ Robotic System at the 2013 Vascular Annual Meeting® of the Society for Vascular Surgery from May 30 - June 1 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. The Company will be exhibiting the Magellan Robotic System and conducting product demonstrations at Booth 301. [More]
AV&R Vision & Robotics Announces Participation in the 50th International Paris Air Show

AV&R Vision & Robotics Announces Participation in the 50th International Paris Air Show

AV&R Vision & Robotics will be present during the 50th International Paris Air Show Le Bourget which will be held in Paris on June 17th to June 23rd 2013. Come meet AV&R’s team in the Hall 3 - Canadian Pavilion at the booth C-80 - D-79. [More]
Tandem Diabetes Care to Utilize JOT Automation Robotic Assembly Based Manufacturing Solution

Tandem Diabetes Care to Utilize JOT Automation Robotic Assembly Based Manufacturing Solution

The partnership with Tandem Diabetes Care is part of JOT Automation's growth strategy to use its mass production know-how, originated from the telecom industry, to serve the needs of the leading life science manufacturers. [More]
IMRIS’ SYMBIS Microsurgical Robot System Receives US Patent Allowance

IMRIS’ SYMBIS Microsurgical Robot System Receives US Patent Allowance

IMRIS Inc. ("IMRIS" or the "Company") today announced the allowance of a US patent defining the foundational technologies for its SYMBIS™ Surgical System - a minimally invasive and MRI-compatible microsurgical robot system. [More]
Triton High-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Built by Northrop Grumman Completes First Flight

Triton High-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Built by Northrop Grumman Completes First Flight

The Northrop Grumman Corporation-built MQ-4C Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight today from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale. [More]
Fire Ant Inspires Subterranean Search and Rescue Robots

Fire Ant Inspires Subterranean Search and Rescue Robots

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States. [More]
Robotics Competition for Computer Scientists at iAAMCS Event

Robotics Competition for Computer Scientists at iAAMCS Event

Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for increasing African-American participation in computing. [More]
Accuray Reports Study Results of Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

Accuray Reports Study Results of Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

Accuray Incorporated, announced today the publication of study results involving hundreds of prostate cancer patients treated with the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System, the most widely used form of prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). [More]
Israel Becomes Top Global Exporter of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Israel Becomes Top Global Exporter of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Israeli original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have aggressively marketed these platforms, helping them become the top exporter of UAS platforms, globally. [More]
Robotics Company, GeckoSystems, Forecasts Profitable 4th Quarter

Robotics Company, GeckoSystems, Forecasts Profitable 4th Quarter

GeckoSystems Intlernational Corporation is pleased to announce that due to the licensing agreement recently reached, the company forecasts a net profit for the 4th quarter of their fiscal year ending June 30. For over fifteen years GeckoSystems has dedicated itself to development of "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™" [More]
SBA Honors Aurora for SPHERES Program Utilized in Zero Robotics Competition

SBA Honors Aurora for SPHERES Program Utilized in Zero Robotics Competition

Aurora Flight Sciences was honored by the Small Business Administration with its Tibbetts Award which recognizes technological innovation made possible through the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. [More]
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