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Insilico Medicine, Life Extension Partner to Use Artificial Intelligence to Support Extended Human Longevity

Insilico Medicine, a big data analytics company situated at the Emerging Technology Centers at the Eastern campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, focuses on using advanced deep learning techniques for drug and biomarker discovery. Life Extension, an organization set up in the early 1980s in Florida, is committed to increasing the health and longevity of humans.

8 Jun 2016

Rajant Selected as Technology Sponsor for Sharp’s Robolliance Initiative

Rajant, the pioneer of innovative mobile mesh technology for private wireless networks, announced today its role in the Robolliance program, an initiative tasked with educating the security industry marketplace about ground-breaking security robotics products.

8 Jun 2016

Lenovo to Leverage Movidius’ Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit for Various Virtual Reality Projects

Movidius, world leader in ultra-low power machine vision technology today announced a strategic partnership to provide advanced vision processing technology to a variety of VR-centric Lenovo products.

8 Jun 2016

Intel, INGDAN.com Collaborate on Development of Global Robotics Ecosystem

Cogobuy Group ("Cogobuy" or the "Company," stock code: 400.HK), the largest e-commerce platform serving the electronics manufacturing industry in China, is pleased to announce that INGDAN.com, the Company's intelligent hardware innovation platform, has signed a cooperative agreement with Intel, a global leader of innovation in intelligent technologies, cloud computing, data centers, the Internet of Things, and PC solutions, to partner in building a robotics ecosystem.

8 Jun 2016

NSF-Supported Project Aims to Create Autonomous Robotic Insects Capable of Independent Flight

Increasingly, researchers are designing robots with forms and functions that defy our expectation of what a machine can be or do.

8 Jun 2016

Rice University Researcher to Participate in 5th Anniversary Celebration of National Robotics Initiative

Rice University robotics researcher Marcia O’Malley will take her brain-machine interface to Capitol Hill June 9 to take part in a fifth-anniversary celebration of the National Robotics Initiative, a federal initiative to encourage the development of robots that work closely with humans.

8 Jun 2016

University of Oklahoma Sooner Rover Team Takes Top Honors in NASA’s Robo-Ops Challenge

The University of Oklahoma’s Sooner Rover Team took top honors in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage Robo-Ops Challenge, besting seven other universities around the nation, as well as an engineering team from NASA. Besides bragging rights, the team won $6,000 in prize money.

6 Jun 2016

EPFL-Designed Thymio Teaching Robot Makes Inroads in France

Thymio, the teaching robot designed by EPFL and widely used in French-speaking Switzerland, is now making inroads elsewhere in Europe. In France, it has been incorporated in an important initiative to teach digital sciences in nursery and primary schools.

6 Jun 2016

New Webinar Series on Using Drones for Agricultural Purposes

The UAS in Agriculture Learning Network, an eXtension network for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in agriculture, has made available a webinar series on using drones or UAS for agricultural purposes.

3 Jun 2016

Robots Carry out Tasks More Safely if Controlled by Another Technology

Robots carry out their tasks more safely if they are controlled by another technology. This makes them much more suitable for use in the care sector, as revealed by a study conducted at the Robotics and Mechatronics department at the University of Twente. On 2 June, researcher Stefan Groothuis is being awarded his PhD for this work.

3 Jun 2016

New Muscle-Inspired Actuators Hold Potential to Build Safer, Soft-Bodied Robots

Robots should be safer and softer in order to make them more cooperative and execute tasks in close contact with humans. George Whitesides, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), along with his team, has created a new actuator that moves like human skeletal muscles by using vacuum power for automating soft, rubber beams.

3 Jun 2016

New Marketing Alliance to Introduce Unmanned Vehicle Technology to Railway Safety and Security Operations

Harsco Corporation announced today that its Protran Technology unit, part of the Company’s Harsco Rail division, has formed a marketing alliance with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to introduce unmanned vehicle technology to traditional railway safety and security operations.

2 Jun 2016

Drone USA and BRVANT Technologic Solutions Enter Joint Venture Agreement

Drone USA, Inc. (“Drone USA” or the “Company”), a developer and manufacturer of low altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and related technologies, announced today that the Company has entered into a joint venture agreement with BRVANT Technologic Solutions (“BRVANT”), a Brazil based developer and manufacturer of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems, USV and UGV systems, embedded systems and simulators for civil and military customers.

2 Jun 2016

Let’s Go Robotics Receives US Patent for Robotic Gripper

Let's Go Robotics today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent #9,327,411 for a robotic gripper that eliminates common points of failure in robotics used in life sciences and other applications.

2 Jun 2016

AeroLift eXpress Presents Revolutionary Drone-Based Delivery Platform to Two U.S. Offshore Operations

Valmie Resources Inc.'s (VMRI) joint venture partner -- AeroLift eXpress -- presented its groundbreaking drone-based delivery platform to two U.S. offshore operations companies. The responses from the companies were positive and AeroLift has begun making preparations for a live demonstration.

1 Jun 2016

Robotics News

Insilico Medicine, Life Extension Partner to Use Artificial Intelligence to Support Extended Human Longevity

Rajant Selected as Technology Sponsor for Sharp’s Robolliance Initiative

Lenovo to Leverage Movidius’ Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit for Various Virtual Reality Projects

Intel, INGDAN.com Collaborate on Development of Global Robotics Ecosystem

NSF-Supported Project Aims to Create Autonomous Robotic Insects Capable of Independent Flight

Rice University Researcher to Participate in 5th Anniversary Celebration of National Robotics Initiative

University of Oklahoma Sooner Rover Team Takes Top Honors in NASA’s Robo-Ops Challenge

EPFL-Designed Thymio Teaching Robot Makes Inroads in France

New Webinar Series on Using Drones for Agricultural Purposes

Robots Carry out Tasks More Safely if Controlled by Another Technology

New Muscle-Inspired Actuators Hold Potential to Build Safer, Soft-Bodied Robots

New Marketing Alliance to Introduce Unmanned Vehicle Technology to Railway Safety and Security Operations

Drone USA and BRVANT Technologic Solutions Enter Joint Venture Agreement

Let’s Go Robotics Receives US Patent for Robotic Gripper

AeroLift eXpress Presents Revolutionary Drone-Based Delivery Platform to Two U.S. Offshore Operations

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ISS Crew Tackles Health, Robotics, and System Upgrades to Support Long-Duration Missions

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New, Low-Cost AI Method for Faster and More Accurate Cancer Monitoring

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