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Novel Robot May Help Improve Social Behaviors for Children with ASD

Robots and humans socialize frequently in pop fiction — think of Wall-E and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Now, a UT Dallas researcher is giving the fantasy of robotic friends a practical edge with a robot that teaches social skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

28 Apr 2014

Over 12,000 Students Test Engineering Skills at Annual FIRST Championship

Over the weekend, more than 12,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis, Mo., to put their engineering skills to the test at the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship, held at the Edward Jones Dome.

28 Apr 2014

Bayer Donates Makrolon Polycarbonate Sheet for BotsIQ Robotics Competition Arena

For years it's been said that robots are the way of the future. In southwestern Pennsylvania, robots are helping to create a workforce development program for the future. The Southwestern Pennsylvania BotsIQ program strives to open high school students' eyes to potential careers in the manufacturing or science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

28 Apr 2014

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover to Evaluate ‘Windjana’ Sandstone Slab as Target for Drilling

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is telling the rover to use several tools this weekend to inspect a sandstone slab being evaluated as a possible drilling target.

26 Apr 2014

First Single-Site Robotic Hysterectomy Performed in Los Angeles

In another advanced step for the gynecological field and minimally invasive surgery, Drs. David Ghozland and Marc Winter, performed the first single-site robotic hysterectomy in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 23rd.

26 Apr 2014

NASA's Curiosity Rover on Surface of Mars Captures Images of Asteroids

A new image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta.

26 Apr 2014

Novel Research to Explore Cognitive Abilities for Controlling Multiple Robotic, Autonomous Vehicles in Motion

Modern military defense planning is already heavily focused on how to gain strategic advantage through brainpower. Another significant step in that direction could result from an Arizona State University engineer’s new research on using cognitive abilities to control defense operations in more direct ways than ever.

26 Apr 2014

Rethink Robotics Releases Intera 2.1 Software Platform for Baxter Robot

Rethink Robotics today introduced Intera 2.1, the latest advance in the company's newly branded software platform that powers the Baxter robot to provide safe, reliable, easy-to-train automation for a wide range of manufacturing and production environments.

26 Apr 2014

Miniature Satellite to Serve as CubeSat Microgravity Laboratory

A dozen astronauts have walked on the moon, and several rovers have been piloted on Mars, giving us a good understanding of these off-world environments. But when it comes to asteroids, scientists enter uncharted territory.

26 Apr 2014

MESSENGER Moves Closer to Mercury After Completing 3,000th Orbit

MESSENGER completed its 3,000th orbit of Mercury and moved closer to the planet than any spacecraft has been before, dropping to an altitude of 199 kilometers (123.7 miles) above the planet’s surface.

25 Apr 2014

Concord Medical Center Performs Implant of Miniature Insertable Cardiac Monitor System

John Muir Health announced today that its Concord medical center is one of the first hospitals in Northern California to implant a miniature cardiac monitor in a patient – the Reveal LINQ Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) System.

25 Apr 2014

Industry Analysis Report on Global Mobile Robotics Market

MRRBIZ includes new market research report "Mobile Robotics Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, And Forecast, 2013 - 2019" to its large collection of research report.

25 Apr 2014

Embedded Vision Summit West 2014: Full Program Announced

The Embedded Vision Alliance today announced the full program for the Embedded Vision Summit West 2014, an event for system, software, and chip design engineers.

25 Apr 2014

SPIE DSS: CISS Scientist to Present on Robot-Deployed Raman System for Detecting Explosives

ChemImage Sensor Systems (CISS) announces that Nathaniel R. Gomer, Ph.D, Senior Scientist will be presenting innovative results of the company's work on a robot-deployed Raman system for detecting and identifying explosives at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing (SPIE DSS) meeting in Baltimore, MD.

25 Apr 2014

New Book on Synthetic Aesthetics Launched at V&A

The emerging field of synthetic biology crosses the boundary between science and design, in order to design and manufacture biologically based parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the natural world, as well as the redesign of existing, natural biological systems.

25 Apr 2014