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RIA Announces Winners of Engelberger Robotics Awards

Today the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade organization, announced the winners of the Engelberger Robotics Awards, the world's most prestigious robotics honor.

23 Feb 2017

Western Reserve Hospital Installs Xenex's LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot

As hospitals around the world look for new and innovative ways to battle deadly pathogens and kill multi-drug resistant organisms that can cause Hospital Acquired Infections, Western Reserve Hospital has taken a leap into the future with the installation of a LightStrike™ Germ-Zapping Robot™ that destroys hard-to-kill bugs in hard-to-clean places.

22 Feb 2017

UPS Successfully Tests Drone Delivery

UPS announced today that it has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a UPS® package car, autonomously delivers a package to a home and then returns to the vehicle while the delivery driver continues along the route to make a separate delivery.

22 Feb 2017

Researchers Use Drones to Remotely Evaluate, Predict Timing of Pod Maturity

When plant breeders develop new crop varieties, they grow up a lot of plants and they all need to be checked. Repeatedly.

21 Feb 2017

Study Proves Gait of Six-Legged Robots is Faster than Nature-Inspired Gait

A team of scientists from EPFL and UNIL have discovered a swifter and more efficient gait, which has never been witnessed in nature, for six-legged robots walking on flat ground.

20 Feb 2017

Researchers Share Design for Building Walking and Swimming Bio-Bots at 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting

Creating tiny muscle-powered robots that can walk or swim by themselves -- or better yet, when prompted -- is more complicated than it looks.

20 Feb 2017

DRI-led Research Team Records Longest Unmanned, Cross-Country Round-Trip Flight in Nevada History

Nevada's unmanned cloud-seeding research team has realized another fundamental capability in their effort toward enhancing snowfall in mountainous regions of the West.

17 Feb 2017

Montreal Heart Institute Performs Ablation Procedures Using Stereotaxis' Niobe ES and Vdrive Robotic Systems

Stereotaxis, Inc., a global leader in innovative robotic technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, and the Montreal Heart Institute, an internationally recognized research leader and specialty hospital dedicated to the advancement of cardiology, today announced that the hospital is now performing ablation procedures using its newly installed Niobe® ES and the Vdrive® robotic systems.

17 Feb 2017

IRPA Expands Focus of Professional Association, Knowledge Forum to Include Artificial Intelligence

IRPA, today announced it has officially expanded the focus of its professional association and knowledge forum to include Artificial Intelligence, and is changing its name to IRPA AI.

16 Feb 2017

National Robotics Week 2017 to Help Spark Interest in Robotics and STEM

The eighth annual National Robotics Week, which takes place April 8-16, is calling for event submissions from robot-enthusiasts across all 50 United States. Events can include robotics competitions, expos, parties, meetups, workshops, classes, camps, and open houses or tours of companies and universities.

16 Feb 2017

CloudMinds Creates Cloud Intelligence-Based Ecosystem

The top-notch R&D team at CloudMinds, a China-based firm specialized in the research, development and manufacturing of cloud intelligence (CI)-based applications, has created a CI ecosystem thanks to investments from several investors, including SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet firm.

16 Feb 2017

Bird Surveys Using Drones

In addition to taking aerial photographs or delivering packages, drones are now being used for a totally new purpose – counting small birds!

15 Feb 2017

AeroVironment Displays Quantix Drone and AV Decision Support System at World Ag Expo and National Farm Machinery Show

AeroVironment, Inc., a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, shared details regarding its ongoing pilot programs, which are entering their third year and have guided development of the AV DSS platform.

15 Feb 2017

Tiny Robots Designed to Propel Through Biological Fluids Using Ultrasound or Enzymatic Reaction

Researchers anticipate that one day nanorobots and other mini-vehicles might be capable of performing vital services in medicine – for instance, by transporting pharmaceutical agents to a preferred location in the body or by conducting remotely-controlled operations.

14 Feb 2017

MIT Team's Low-Power Chip Could Revolutionize Speech Recognition in Electronics

Automatic speech recognition is on the verge of becoming the chief way of interacting with primary computing devices. A decade ago, the concept of automatic speech recognition was laughed at.

14 Feb 2017