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Delivering Vaccines Through Drones can Lead to Cost Saving

A recent study has suggested the use of drones to deliver vaccinations in countries with less income. The research was headed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The usage of drones can have the dual benefit of saving money and improving the vaccination rates in these countries.

23 Jun 2016

New FAA Rule Enables Real Estate Professionals to Use Drones for Commercial Purposes

Commercial drone use in the real estate business got a boost today with the release of the Federal Aviation Administration's final rule (link is external) governing small unmanned aerial systems, or UASs, in the national air space.

22 Jun 2016

Medrobotics’ Flex Robotic System Receives Best-in-Show Award at 2016 MDEA

Medrobotics Corp., a surgical products company with core competencies in medical robotics, announced today that its Flex® Robotic System was named the sole Best-in-Show award winner at the 2016 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA). Earlier in the evening, the Flex® Robotic System had been named the only Gold Medal Winner in the Surgical Equipment, Instruments and Supplies category.

22 Jun 2016

Universal Robots Launches Showroom of Plug & Play Applications

Universal Robots, the Danish pioneer of human-robot collaboration, has announced the launch of Universal Robots+, a showroom of plug & play applications, offering a new level of simplicity for Universal Robot custome...

From Universal Robotics, Inc. 22 Jun 2016

Researchers Introduce Specially-Designed Computer Processor for Robotic Motion Planning

Once they've mastered the skills of toddlerhood, humans are pretty good at what roboticists call "motion planning"—reaching around obstacles to precisely pick up a soda in a crowded fridge, or slipping their hands around a screen to connect an unseen cable.

21 Jun 2016

Researchers Develop New Technique to Improve Image Processing and Computer Vision

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that improves the ability of computer vision technologies to better identify and separate objects in an image, a process called segmentation.

21 Jun 2016

Latest Artificial Intelligence Analyses Identify Breast Cancer with 99.5% Precision

For the past century, disease diagnosis has been carried out by pathologists in the same way - manual review of images using a microscope. A new study is likely to change this age old approach.

20 Jun 2016

School Children Receive Certificates for Completion of Robotics and IT Courses at EPFL Campus

The US ambassador to Switzerland and the next president of EPFL were on campus today to award certificates to local nine-to-twelve year olds who had completed the IT workshops given by EPFL's Science Outreach Department.

20 Jun 2016

Ninox Robotics’ Drones Take to The Sky On First Commercial Projects

Having received final regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), new Australian technology company Ninox Robotics will begin commercial operations this month, deploying its class leading, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for customised services to government, NGOs and private sector clients.

20 Jun 2016

Validic, Omnicom Provide Strategies to Integrate Data from Wearables and Clinical Remote Monitoring Devices

Validic, the healthcare industry's leading digital health platform, and Omnicom Health Group, a leading global communications and healthcare strategy organization, have announced a partnership to counsel healthcare companies on the connected health market and to develop new solutions that integrate data from wearables, apps and clinical remote monitoring devices.

17 Jun 2016

AIAA, DWE Partner Develop New Research-Related Contest in Field of Unmanned Aerial Systems

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Drone World Expo (DWE) have partnered to create the Innovative Drone Exploration and Application (IDEA) Competition, a new research-related contest in the field of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).

17 Jun 2016

Researchers Develop New Method to Combat Virtual Reality Sickness

Steven K. Feiner, a Columbia Engineering Professor, and Ajoy Fernandes MS’16 have jointly invented a technique for fighting virtual reality (VR) sickness that can be used for consumer head-worn VR displays, such as Google Cardboard, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Sony PlayStation VR. Their approach both slightly yet dynamically changes the user’s field of view (FOV) based on the visually perceived motion, as the user continues to be physically stable and yet virtually traverses an environment.

16 Jun 2016

First-Ever Embry-Riddle sUAS Consumer Guide Available for Novice Pilots

Learning how to fly a small unmanned aircraft (drone) to manage your business has now become easy with a new, comprehensive consumer guide.

16 Jun 2016

CAVA Robotics Releases New YouTube Educational Video Series for Hospital Administrators

CAVA Robotics, the healthcare IT leader in robotic program consulting to hospitals, today announced the release of their new YouTube educational video series, "The Untold Secrets of Robotic Program Profitability and Optimization."

16 Jun 2016

Airbus Uses KUKA Heavy-Duty Mobile Transport Vehicles for A380 Flagship Construction in Hamburg

Airbus uses two powerful KUKA omniMove heavy-duty mobile transport vehicles for the construction of its A380 flagship in Hamburg. With their Mecanum wheels, they are able to transport aircraft components weighing up to 90 tonnes with millimeter precision in confined spaces.

16 Jun 2016

Robotics News

Delivering Vaccines Through Drones can Lead to Cost Saving

New FAA Rule Enables Real Estate Professionals to Use Drones for Commercial Purposes

Medrobotics’ Flex Robotic System Receives Best-in-Show Award at 2016 MDEA

Universal Robots Launches Showroom of Plug & Play Applications

Researchers Introduce Specially-Designed Computer Processor for Robotic Motion Planning

Researchers Develop New Technique to Improve Image Processing and Computer Vision

Latest Artificial Intelligence Analyses Identify Breast Cancer with 99.5% Precision

School Children Receive Certificates for Completion of Robotics and IT Courses at EPFL Campus

Ninox Robotics’ Drones Take to The Sky On First Commercial Projects

Validic, Omnicom Provide Strategies to Integrate Data from Wearables and Clinical Remote Monitoring Devices

AIAA, DWE Partner Develop New Research-Related Contest in Field of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Researchers Develop New Method to Combat Virtual Reality Sickness

First-Ever Embry-Riddle sUAS Consumer Guide Available for Novice Pilots

CAVA Robotics Releases New YouTube Educational Video Series for Hospital Administrators

Airbus Uses KUKA Heavy-Duty Mobile Transport Vehicles for A380 Flagship Construction in Hamburg

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