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Vertitek Now Offers Three New Drone Racing Products to Public

Valmie Resources Inc. announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Vertitek, is now offering three new drone racing products to the public.

12 Oct 2016

Rethink Robotics Introduces Sawyer Robot with Software Development Kit

Rethink Robotics today unveiled its high performance Sawyer robot for the global research and education markets.

7 Oct 2016

Study Explores Cost-Effectiveness of Prosthetic Interventions for TTA Patients

Patients with serious lower leg trauma have two main care options: limb preservation or transtibial amputation (TTA) with the subsequent use of a prosthesis, or artificial limb.

7 Oct 2016

Robot Could Be a Nursing Assistant for Your Next Visit to Hospital

The nursing assistant for your next trip to the hospital might be a robot. This is the implication of research recently published by Dr. Elena De Momi and colleagues in the open access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

6 Oct 2016

Network of Computers Can Help Identify Specific Plant Diseases with High Accuracy Using Smartphones

A network of computers fed a large image dataset can learn to recognize specific plant diseases with a high degree of accuracy, potentially paving the way for field-based crop-disease identification using smartphones, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland.

5 Oct 2016

Swedish Man with World’s First Implanted Bionic Arm to Compete in Cybathlon 2016

A few years ago, a patient was implanted with a bionic arm for the first time in the world using control technology developed at Chalmers University of Technology.

5 Oct 2016

New Research Paper Explores Use of Brain-Machine Interfaces for Communication, Rehabilitation

In the journal Nature Reviews Neurology the researcher Ander Ramos of Tecnalia together with Niel Birbaumer, lecturer at the University of Tübingen, have expounded how brain-machine interfaces (BMI) use brain activity to control external devices, thus enabling seriously disabled patients to interact with the environment.

5 Oct 2016

Spherical Induction Motor Eliminates Mechanical Drive System in Mobile Robot

More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, has an equally elegant motor with just one moving part: the ball.

5 Oct 2016

Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings Could Help in Natural Disasters

Drones to help search for victims of natural disasters need the following characteristics: ease of transport, long battery life and robustness

5 Oct 2016

Researchers Develop 3D-Printed, Durable and Safer Robots

Those who have ever watched an episode of ‘BattleBots’ or drone videos would know that robots can break, and this is often due to the lack of proper padding to protect them.

4 Oct 2016

Aerialtronics’ Drones Leverage IBM Watson IoT Platform to Enable Cognitive Inspection with IBM Cloud

IBM and Aerialtronics, a Netherlands-based designer and producer of unmanned aircraft systems, today announced the first commercial drones featuring cognitive computing capabilities from the IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) Platform on IBM Cloud.

4 Oct 2016

New Project Aims to Deploy Unmanned Helicopters to Measure Forest Inventory Parameters

In many forests, the collection of information pertaining to the wood remains neglected, due to a shortage of specially trained personnel, specific expertise, funding, or appropriate technology.

4 Oct 2016

USC Norris, Springbok Cares Launch Virtual Reality Initiative to Treat Young Cancer Patients

The University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has partnered with Springbok Cares to provide a unique Virtual Reality (VR) initiative for patients in the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer program at USC (AYA@USC).

4 Oct 2016

GuidaBot Receives NSF Grant to Develop, Commercialize Robotic System for MRI-Guided Interventions

GuidaBot, LLC, a joint venture between the University of Houston and Fannin Innovation Studio, has received a one-year, $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and commercialize a robotic manipulator designed to work within the powerful magnetic field of an MRI machine.

3 Oct 2016

Researchers Discover Simple Way to Direct Synthetic Microswimmers Towards Light or Darkness

Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects them from excessive light intensity.

3 Oct 2016

Robotics News

Vertitek Now Offers Three New Drone Racing Products to Public

Rethink Robotics Introduces Sawyer Robot with Software Development Kit

Study Explores Cost-Effectiveness of Prosthetic Interventions for TTA Patients

Robot Could Be a Nursing Assistant for Your Next Visit to Hospital

Network of Computers Can Help Identify Specific Plant Diseases with High Accuracy Using Smartphones

Swedish Man with World’s First Implanted Bionic Arm to Compete in Cybathlon 2016

New Research Paper Explores Use of Brain-Machine Interfaces for Communication, Rehabilitation

Spherical Induction Motor Eliminates Mechanical Drive System in Mobile Robot

Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings Could Help in Natural Disasters

Researchers Develop 3D-Printed, Durable and Safer Robots

Aerialtronics’ Drones Leverage IBM Watson IoT Platform to Enable Cognitive Inspection with IBM Cloud

New Project Aims to Deploy Unmanned Helicopters to Measure Forest Inventory Parameters

USC Norris, Springbok Cares Launch Virtual Reality Initiative to Treat Young Cancer Patients

GuidaBot Receives NSF Grant to Develop, Commercialize Robotic System for MRI-Guided Interventions

Researchers Discover Simple Way to Direct Synthetic Microswimmers Towards Light or Darkness

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AI Framework from University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca Enhances Protein Design for Drug Development

New Hydrophilic Magnetic Soft Robot Enables High-Speed, Precise Droplet Manipulation for Biomedical and Chemical Applications

Tiny Robot Duo Could Change the Way We Inspect Complex Machinery

What Big Pharma Isn’t Telling You About AI Labs

AI Governance Frameworks for Scientific Applications

Inside the Cross-Sector Collaborations Driving AI in Biotech

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Robot Chef: The Future of Automated Meal Preparation

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Resurrecting Ancient Cephalopods with Robots