Remote Control Technologies’ (RCT) infrared remote control system has been deployed in the Telfer underground gold mine.
Robot drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are being used extensively not only for military applications, law enforcement and environmental monitoring.
NASA is offering $20 million in support of the robotics non profit organisation ‘FIRST’ or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
NASA wants students to come up with an excavator for working on the surface of the moon. It is issuing a challenge to US and international undergraduates and graduates to team up to design and build this excavator.
As a part of its incentive for student participation in science, technology and mathematics with a focus on robotic technology, NASA is providing up to $20 million over the next five years to support a national program.
The Alabama Robotics Technology Park will soon be open to the general public. Alabama Governor, Bob Riley will be attending the grand opening of the Phase I of the park on Wednesday November 10, 2010.
Coal miners may soon have new guardian angels in China in robotic form. Given the rather dismal safety record of Chinese mines this is seen as a positive move. A factory in north China is going to begin producing coal mine rescue robots that will enter the hazardous areas of mining accidents to collect data.
The NICTA chief executive David Skellern is due to retire early next year and Hugh Durrant-Whyte will replace him. He was appointed the new CEO after an international search by executive placement specialists Russell Reynolds and Associates.
Newcrest, Australia’s largest gold producing company, has granted $18 million to ABB for delivering electrical and automation solutions for six underground mine incline conveyors for their Cadia East gold and copper project, which is scheduled to be over by 2013 and upon completion it will be the largest underground mine in Australia.
Aitik copper mine has made a three year agreement with ABB, a global leader in providing automation solutions, to automate the entire copper mining operation at the Bolidon site by installing its 800xA automation platform.
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