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Astronics to Supply Automated Test Systems to U.S. Marine Corps

Astronics Corporation has declared that its subsidiary unit Astronics DME Corporation is one among the three companies to sign an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) agreement worth $21 million with the U.S. Marine Corps to supply automated test equipments and test program sets through the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP).

7 Oct 2010

Kria’s Latest T-EXSPEED Includes Machine Vision Cameras

Kria, an Italian traffic control company, has created an automated traffic enforcement system called T-EXSPEED which includes stereo software algorithms and several machine vision cameras for tracing and revealing traffic infringements.

7 Oct 2010

Motoman Robotics Releases PerfectEdge Robotic Solution

Motoman Robotics has partnered with Arrow Gear for releasing a robotic working cell called PerfectEdge for performing various tasks like tight tolerance cutting, chamfering, deburring or final stage operation, with simple programming procedures.

7 Oct 2010

UT Southwestern Surgeons Perform Robot-Assisted Kidney Repair Surgery

Surgeons at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, North Texas have performed the region’s first robotic surgery for kidney repair via a single-incision.

7 Oct 2010

Paris Motor Show Showcases Automated Docking System

A strategic collaboration was made including Modulowatt Ingenierie and Valeo for developing AMARE, a mechanical coupling demonstrator driven by electricity, which helps in automated docking of a vehicle to an automated battery charging station.

7 Oct 2010

Bambino Gesu Patient Undergoes World’s First Robotic Heart Transplantation

Dr. Antonio Amodeo of Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome has performed the world’s first robotic heart transplantation surgery for an Italian boy. Since the patient was suffering from Duchenne's syndrome, the surgeons could not perform the conventional heart transplantation.

7 Oct 2010

NRK Launches New Products for Robot Calibration

New River Kinematics (NRK), a leading supplier of innovative metrology software, has launched SA Arm and SA Machine. The company has reported that these products can be availed globally from October 1st at a reasonable price.

7 Oct 2010

Xyntek Releases New Range of Machine Vision Solutions

Xyntek Inc has released a new machine vision solution which includes the Optical Character Verification System (MVX-OCV 5.0) and Audit Message Server (MVX-AMS) for product inspection and compliant lifecycle applications.

7 Oct 2010

Saab Seaeye to Supply Cougar XT ROVs

Saab Seaeye, a global provider of electrically operated Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs), has announced that it has received a procurement order from Jifmar Offshore Services for two Cougar XT ROVs.

From Saab Seaeye Limited 7 Oct 2010

RVT Develops Vision Guided Robotics Solutions

Robotic VISION Technologies LLC (RVT) has released eVisionFactory (eVF) Version 6.0 to offer enhanced features like simplicity, standardization, commonality, and flexibility for applications in industrial, government, and defense markets.

7 Oct 2010

Researchers Develop Learning Algorithm for the Humanoid iCub Robot

Researchers Dr. Peter Kormushev, Dr. Sylvain Calinon, Dr. Ryo Saegusa and Professor Giorgio Metta at the Italian Institute of Technology, have created a learning algorithm called Augmented Reward Chained Regression (ARCHER), enabling iCub a 53-DOF humanoid robot to learn archery.

7 Oct 2010

AZFirst Announces FIRST Robotics Competition Arizona Regional

AZFirst, an Arizona based organization supporting the programs of For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), has launched the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Arizona Regional 2011.

7 Oct 2010

EGE to Include Automated Baggage Screening System

Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE) has received a grant of $4.6 million from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for including an automated system for inspecting the in-line baggage.

7 Oct 2010

Montana State University Releases Online Robotics Course for Teachers

Montana State University has launched ‘Using Robots in Lunar Exploration’ (Physics 591-01), a new online robotics course for teachers handling science, math and technology subjects and is scheduled between October 4 and November 9. On completion, the teachers will receive one graduate credit from the University.

7 Oct 2010

2010 Military Robotics Conference to Highlight Unmanned Robotics

Military Robotics conference titled “Revolutionizing Military Operations with Unmanned Land and Naval Robotics” will be held at San Diego, between November 3 and 4, 2010.

6 Oct 2010