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Newest Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot Deployed at Camden Clark Medical Center

As hospitals across the nation and around the world look for new and innovative ways to battle bacteria and eliminate multi-drug resistant organisms that can cause Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), Camden Clark Medical Center has again committed to improving patient care with its purchase of a second high tech Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot™.

12 Jul 2016

PARC Develops Vanishing Autonomous Air Vehicles through Funds from DARPA

PARC is a Xerox company that has received funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through its Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems (ICARUS) program.

12 Jul 2016

Accenture Joins Hands with RoboValley to Advance Development of Next-Generation Robotics Technology

Accenture and RoboValley, an innovation hub for robotics located at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, have announced a five-year collaboration designed to advance the development of the next generation of robotics technology.

11 Jul 2016

NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance System to be Presented at 2016 NATO Summit

Just four years after signing the contract at the 2012 Chicago NATO Summit, the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system will be presented to heads of state and senior NATO and national officials at the 2016 Warsaw Summit.

11 Jul 2016

Using Wearable Neuromuscular Device Could Reduce Risk of ACL Injury in Female Soccer Athletes

Using a wearable neuromuscular device can reduce the risk of ACL injury in female soccer athletes, according to new research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs, CO. The study showed functional improvements in athletes who used the devices in combination with a regular training program.

11 Jul 2016

Morehead State University's 21st Century Education Enterprise Concludes Robotics Summer Institute Camp

Morehead State University’s 21st Century Education Enterprise has completed a three-day “Robotics Summer Institute” professional learning experience for teachers from middle schools in the service region.

11 Jul 2016

UPMC, IBM Join Hands to Apply Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning to Health Care Systems

In an effort to apply data-driven insights to one of the most fundamental aspects of running a health care system, UPMC announced today that it has formed Pensiamo, an independent company that aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance through a comprehensive source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health technologies. IBM is a minority owner of Pensiamo.

8 Jul 2016

Leading Automotive Manufacturer Chooses Perceptron’s Helix Robot Guidance Systems for New Vehicle Launch

Perceptron, Inc., a leading global provider of 3D automated metrology solutions and coordinate measuring machines, announced that a leading global automotive manufacturer has selected Perceptron’s Helix® robot guidance systems for its new vehicle launch.

8 Jul 2016

Swisslog NOC to Offer Remote Monitoring, Technical Support Center for TransLogic Pneumatic Tube Systems

Swisslog, a leading supplier of solutions for medication and supply chain management in healthcare, reveals their Network Operations Center (NOC) for TransLogic® Pneumatic Tube Systems (PTS) and showcases the Nexus™ Station at American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition in Denver next week.

8 Jul 2016

KUKA Adds Extremely Compact KR 3 AGILUS to Small Robots Product Line-Up

The KR 3 AGILUS is used for production applications where very short cycle times and maximum output are required, such as assembling small components, performing handling tasks, screw fastening, brazing, adhesive bonding, packaging, testing and inspecting.

8 Jul 2016

Universal Unveils New Autonomous Robot Machine as Service Offering for Knightscope Customers

Universal Protection Service—a division of Universal Services of America—today announced the launch of its new autonomous robot Machine as a Service offering for customers with Knightscope, a security technology company based in Mountain View, Calif.

8 Jul 2016

CIROS 2016: Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer Robot Honored with Golden Finger Awards

Rethink Robotics, the industry pioneer in collaborative robots, today shines in the 2016 China International Robot Show (CIROS) as its Sawyer robot is one of the winners of the Golden Finger Awards at the highly anticipated robot trade event.

8 Jul 2016

New Study Results Could Help Designers Create Amphibious Robots with Better Mobility across Mud

When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized. That’s one conclusion from a new study of African mudskipper fish and a robot modeled on the animal.

8 Jul 2016

Researchers Build Robotic Mimic of Stingray, Powered and Guided by Light-Sensitive Rat Heart Cells

Researchers have created a robotic mimic of a stingray that's powered and guided by light-sensitive rat heart cells. The work exhibits a new method for building bio-inspired robots by means of tissue engineering.

8 Jul 2016

EU-Funded Research Projects Aim to Achieve Machine-Based Translation of 24 Languages

The aim of their collaboration is to achieve machine-based translation between the languages of the European Union so that comprehensible texts are achieved for as many language combinations as possible. Two of the EU-funded research projects are being led by the Saarbrücken computer linguist Josef van Genabith.

8 Jul 2016

Robotics News

Newest Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot Deployed at Camden Clark Medical Center

PARC Develops Vanishing Autonomous Air Vehicles through Funds from DARPA

Accenture Joins Hands with RoboValley to Advance Development of Next-Generation Robotics Technology

NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance System to be Presented at 2016 NATO Summit

Using Wearable Neuromuscular Device Could Reduce Risk of ACL Injury in Female Soccer Athletes

Morehead State University's 21st Century Education Enterprise Concludes Robotics Summer Institute Camp

UPMC, IBM Join Hands to Apply Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning to Health Care Systems

Leading Automotive Manufacturer Chooses Perceptron’s Helix Robot Guidance Systems for New Vehicle Launch

Swisslog NOC to Offer Remote Monitoring, Technical Support Center for TransLogic Pneumatic Tube Systems

KUKA Adds Extremely Compact KR 3 AGILUS to Small Robots Product Line-Up

Universal Unveils New Autonomous Robot Machine as Service Offering for Knightscope Customers

CIROS 2016: Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer Robot Honored with Golden Finger Awards

New Study Results Could Help Designers Create Amphibious Robots with Better Mobility across Mud

Researchers Build Robotic Mimic of Stingray, Powered and Guided by Light-Sensitive Rat Heart Cells

EU-Funded Research Projects Aim to Achieve Machine-Based Translation of 24 Languages

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