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Latest Robotics/Automation News

AV&R Vision & Robotics Merges with IMAC Automation

AV&R Vision & Robotics Merges with IMAC Automation

AV&R Vision & Robotics and IMAC Automation, a company developing manufacturing automation, are merging to become AV&R, world’s largest engineering firm specializing in robotics for the aerospace industry. [More]
REC Foundation and Texas Workforce Commission Support VEX Robotics Competition School Teams

REC Foundation and Texas Workforce Commission Support VEX Robotics Competition School Teams

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the Texas Workforce Commission today announced a partnership to support growth and development of 400 new and 100 existing VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) high school teams to engage approximately 5,000 students both in public school and home school settings. [More]
Robotic Installation and Cleaning Technologies Introduced by Alion Energy

Robotic Installation and Cleaning Technologies Introduced by Alion Energy

Alion Energy, an innovative installation and maintenance service company that uses automated technologies to optimize utility scale solar plants, today unveils ROVER and SPOT, a pair of patented robotic installation and cleaning technologies. Together, they enable the fastest construction and lowest EPC costs for utility scale solar while producing more energy than standard fixed-tilt projects. [More]
Trimble's Debuts Next Generation Photogrammetric Aerial Mapping UAS

Trimble's Debuts Next Generation Photogrammetric Aerial Mapping UAS

Trimble introduced today its next generation Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)—the Trimble® UX5 aerial imaging rover with the Trimble Access™ aerial imaging application. The new solution builds upon the strengths of its predecessor, the Trimble Gatewing X100, to offer enhanced image quality and intuitive workflows. [More]
Indocement to Upgrade Cement Plants with Siemens Process Control Systems

Indocement to Upgrade Cement Plants with Siemens Process Control Systems

The Siemens Drive Technologies Division has received an order to upgrade cement plants from PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk. (Indocement), Indonesia. A major part of the project will be migrating the previous process control system of a competitor to the Simatic PCS 7-based process control system Cemat. [More]
Seventh Annual Western National Robot Rodeo Being Hosted by Sandia

Seventh Annual Western National Robot Rodeo Being Hosted by Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is hosting the seventh annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise, a lively and challenging five-day event that draws civilian and military bomb squad teams from across the country to see who can most effectively defuse dangerous situations with the help of robots. [More]
Ford Develops Robotic Technology to Test Trucks

Ford Develops Robotic Technology to Test Trucks

Ford engineers have developed the industry’s first robotic test driving program – now in use at the company’s Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo, Mich. – to meet demands that Ford trucks undergo ever more strenuous Built Ford Tough testing with greater frequency. [More]
Global Aerospace Service Robotics Market to Grow at 24.11% CAGR till 2016

Global Aerospace Service Robotics Market to Grow at 24.11% CAGR till 2016

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Aerospace Service Robotics Market 2012-2016" report to their offering. [More]
EPFL Develops Cheetah-Cub Robot

EPFL Develops Cheetah-Cub Robot

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its experimental stage, the robot will serve as a platform for research in locomotion and biomechanics. [More]
Raytheon to Support Ground Elements of Global Hawk UAS

Raytheon to Support Ground Elements of Global Hawk UAS

Raytheon Company has been awarded a subcontract to provide contractor logistics support to the ground station elements for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Raytheon continues to support the Global Hawk mission, building on its 99.8 percent ground station availability to support the warfighters. [More]
AVT and Initiative Bildverarbeitung Present Fokusfinder Award to Lübeck University Student

AVT and Initiative Bildverarbeitung Present Fokusfinder Award to Lübeck University Student

Maximilian Blendowski, B.Sc. at Lübeck University (Germany) awarded 1,000 € prize for his bachelor thesis on image processing in medical applications. [More]
Concern over Drone Usage in Bomb Strikes and Potential Invasion of Privacy

Concern over Drone Usage in Bomb Strikes and Potential Invasion of Privacy

UAVs or unmanned aerial vehicles – are not exactly ubiquitous yet. But that future may not be far away. [More]
Lancaster General Health Treats Patient with CyberKnife M6 Robotic Radiosurgery System

Lancaster General Health Treats Patient with CyberKnife M6 Robotic Radiosurgery System

Accuray Incorporated announced today that Lancaster General Health in Pennsylvania is the first U.S. center to treat a patient with the CyberKnife® M6™ System, the most advanced robotic radiosurgery system in the world and the latest generation of the CyberKnife System. [More]
New Study on Law Enforcement, First Responder, Border Patrol Ground Robot Mobile Platform Systems

New Study on Law Enforcement, First Responder, Border Patrol Ground Robot Mobile Platform Systems

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Law Enforcement, First Responder, Border Patrol ground robot market [More]
Stanford Students Build Robotic Soccer Goalkeeper

Stanford Students Build Robotic Soccer Goalkeeper

"Some of these students have been here all night long," said computer science Professor Oussama Khatib, motioning to the half-dozen groups of students hunched over computer screens and robotic arms. [More]
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