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Sheffield Robotics Set to Advance UK’s Robotics Research

Sheffield is at the center of the UK’s robotic research, with the potential to become the leading city in the field worldwide.

27 Jul 2016

Northrop Grumman's Autonomous Global Hawk UAS Sets Endurance Records

Northrop Grumman Corporation's autonomous Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) surpassed 200,000 flight hours, reinforcing its status as the most effective high altitude, long endurance intelligence gathering aircraft in the world.

27 Jul 2016

Terra Drone Partners with Hitachi Construction Machinery to Improve UAV Land-Surveying

Terra Drone, Asia's leading service provider of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, have announced a partnership to accelerate full-automatic UAV operation at construction sites.

27 Jul 2016

COWAROBOT Launches First-Ever COWAROBOT R1 Robotic Suitcase Through Indiegogo Campaign

COWAROBOT, a robotics company bringing proprietary robotics technology to consumer products, announced today the launch of its flagship product, COWAROBOT R1, via the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.

27 Jul 2016

Robotic Surgery as Good as Open Surgery for Prostate Cancer, Study Finds

The first randomised controlled trial to directly compare robotic surgery with open surgery for patients with localised prostate cancer finds that robotic and open surgery achieve similar results in terms of key quality of life indicators at 3 months.

27 Jul 2016

HIFU Prostrate Services Places Sonablate HIFU Robotic System at Florida Hospital

HIFU Prostate Services, LLC, the most experienced provider of HIFU for prostate cancer and with the largest network of HIFU physicians, has placed a Sonablate HIFU system at Florida Hospital Celebration Health under the direction of Dr. Vipul Patel. Dr. Patel is widely considered the world’s expert in robotic-assisted prostatectomy (prostate removal), having performed over 9,500, and leads the efforts at the Global Robotics Institute in Celebration, FL.

26 Jul 2016

Leidos Concludes Initial Performance Trials of Unmanned Sea Hunter off San Diego Coast

Leidos, a national security, health, and infrastructure solutions company, announced today that on June 22, it completed initial performance trials of the technology demonstration vessel it is developing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program.

26 Jul 2016

Raytheon Developing New Networking Solution for Seamless Communication Between Manned and Unmanned Flying Vehicles

Raytheon Company is developing new technologies to allow the next generation of manned and unmanned flying vehicles to communicate seamlessly, even in hostile environments.

26 Jul 2016

NYU Lutheran Offers Robot-Assisted Surgery with da Vinci Surgical System

True to its commitment to bring world-class care to patients in Brooklyn, the NYU Langone Health System is building a sophisticated, technologically advanced and clinically integrated health network in the borough.

26 Jul 2016

Samsung Brings Gear 360 Virtual Reality Camera to Lollapalooza Festival

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. returns to Lollapalooza to amplify the festival experience for music fans, bringing a host of new, immersive experiences grounded in virtual reality (VR), fun games, giveaways and more throughout the 4-day weekend.

26 Jul 2016

Microrobots Assist in Medical Operations and Drug Delivery

A team of researchers at EPFL and ETHZ have designed a new technique for constructing microrobots that can be used in the body to provide drugs and also perform a number of other medical operations.

25 Jul 2016

New UK-RAS Network White Paper Highlights Biomimetic Mobility of Robots in Space

Autonomous robots capable of walking, swimming and climbing, will replicate insects, birds, animals and even humans on future missions of space exploration within decades, according to a new UK-RAS Network white paper led by Professor Yang Gao, Head of STAR Lab at the University of Surrey.

25 Jul 2016

Baidu Selects Inspur Heterogeneous Supercomputing Server for Unmanned Auto Road Condition Model Training

Artificial intelligence has advanced through the years and voice recognition, intelligent hardware, and driverless cars are all technologies that influence our lives.

22 Jul 2016

Flexpoint's Bend Sensor to Revolutionize Virtual Reality Platform

Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. (FLXT) is pleased to announce it has received the initial production order from the go-to virtual reality data glove company, Manus VR (https://manus-vr.com/). Our sensor solution will help power their exciting and innovative VR gloves.

22 Jul 2016

SSL Awarded $20.7 Million Contract to Design, Build Robotic Arms for DARPA’s RSGS Program

Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, today announced it has received $20.7 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and build robotic arm flight hardware for the agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.

22 Jul 2016