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Intelligrated Acquisitions Successfully Completed by Permira Funds

Intelligrated®, a leading North American-based provider of automated material handling solutions, services and products, announced today that its acquisition by a holding company owned by the Permira funds has been successfully completed, in a transaction at a valuation in excess of $500 million.

From Honeywell Intelligrated 31 Jul 2012

Itris Automation Square Becomes Member of Control System Integrators Association

Itris Automation Square (IAS), a provider of products for verification, documentation and conversion of PLC programs, has announced that it has become a member of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA).

From Itris Automation Square 31 Jul 2012

PCS Releases New Version of Robotics Education Pack

PCS Edventures, one of the leaders in K-16 programs dealing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), has declared the launch of their Robotics Education Pack version 2.0. This novel tool is packed with latest curriculums and software upgrades.

From PCS Edventures!.com, Inc. 19 Jul 2012

Development of Resilient Robots To Map Underwater Environments

In the last few years, Navy scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for minesweeping and other risky underwater missions. The ultimate goal is to design completely autonomous robots that can navigate and map cloudy underwater environments— without any prior knowledge of those environments — and detect mines as small as an iPod.

17 Jul 2012

Adept Technology to Demonstrate Autonomous Indoor Vehicles at 2012 SEMICON West

Adept Technology declared that it will showcase its new Autonomous Indoor Vehicles (AIVs) that enables automated-transport of SMIF pods during the SEMICON West 2012 show. This industrial event is being held between July 10 and 12 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Two Adept transporters will interact with show attendees.

11 Jul 2012

CHAD Industries to Showcase Automated Solution at SEMICON West 2012

CHAD Industries declared that it will display automated wafer handling of electrostatic wafers carriers featuring automated SMIF pod delivery at SEMICON West 2012 in San Francisco.

4 Jul 2012

Robots Built To Work In Inhospitable Places

William “Red” Whittaker, who has repeatedly developed robots to work in such inhospitable places as contaminated nuclear plants, abandoned mines, active volcanoes, Antarctic glaciers and the moon, has been awarded the 2012 Simon Ramo Medal by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization.

26 Jun 2012