For the second year in a row, Arizona State University tested its Moon-mining robot design at the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition. The event was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, May 20-24.
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Today, ADT is introducing new video motion sensor technology to provide ADT Pulse customers with an extra layer of security protection and the ultimate convenience in home automation. The new feature allows users to schedule actions when motion is detected by their indoor or outdoor wireless cameras, and receive instant email or text message alerts with video clips of these activities.
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5D Robotics, Inc., a robotics software company that integrates human behaviors with leading robotics hardware, is collaborating with DRS Technologies, Segway Inc. and the U.S. Army, to develop robots that lighten the soldier's workload and save lives.
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SDI Intelligrated, a joint venture in São Paulo, Brazil between Intelligrated® (www.intelligrated.com) and SDI Group USA (www.sdiindustries.com), announces that it will host three interns from Brazil in the U.S. this summer as part of a scholarship program sponsored by the Brazilian government for the country’s top students. The interns will be hosted in St. Louis and gain experience in engineering.
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How do you feel about using surveillance technologies to keep you healthy and living independently? University of Bristol academics are keen to hear your views on a new sensor system being developed by them to monitor people’s health in the home at a free public event next month [22 July].
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Despite near-term U.S. budget cutbacks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue as the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest integrated market analysis, during the opening of the 50th Paris Air Show.
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Sisecam Pasabahce of Turkey is a world-leading manufacturer of glass tableware. The company has been producing consumer glass products since 1935 and serving international markets since 1961. Paþabahçe started automating its production lines as early as 1955, pioneering industrial automation in the glassware industry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Aerospace Service Robotics Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.
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