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Researchers Expose Design Flaws in Hobby Drones

There has been a surge in the sale of drones - small flying machines fitted with cameras. However a recent study conducted by a computer security team from Johns Hopkins University reveals that it is quite easy for hackers to make drones disregard their human controllers and land or even crash.

9 Jun 2016

CSIC Launches Paediatric Exoskeleton for Children Suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy

The world’s first pediatric exoskeleton specifically designed for children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy has been introduced by the Superior Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Spinal muscular atrophy is a degenerative disease that affects 1 out of 10,000 babies in Spain.

9 Jun 2016

March Networks, AMAG Technology Provide Unified IP Video Surveillance and Access Control Solution

March Networks® and AMAG Technology are pleased to announce the certified integration of the March Networks Command™ Enterprise video management solution with AMAG’s Symmetry™ Access Control system.

9 Jun 2016

March Networks Debuts New Video Over Coax Surveillance Camera, MegaPX DPoC MicroDome

March Networks®, a global provider of intelligent IP video solutions, is pleased to introduce its new MegaPX DPoC MicroDome. The IP camera is the industry’s first 3MP, video over coax surveillance camera to support the HomePlug AV / IEEE 1901 standard, enabling it to transmit video and audio in daisy-chain or loop configurations over a single analog cable.

9 Jun 2016

String of Victories Puts Alabama Astrobotics in Spotlight

When people think of The University of Alabama's championships teams, the school's robotics team may not be the first to come to mind. But a string of victories is putting Alabama Astrobotics in the spotlight.

9 Jun 2016

RIA Announces Recipients of Engelberger Robotics Award 2016

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announces the industry’s highest honor, the Engelberger Robotics Award recipients for 2016. The awards will be presented to Dr. Chia Day and Dean Elkins at a special ceremony on Tuesday, June 21st in Munich, Germany.

9 Jun 2016

UAB Surgeons to Use Mona Lisa Robotic Device for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

The world-renowned iSR’obotTM Mona Lisa makes its way to the United States, providing urologic surgeons with a tool to diagnose prostate cancer earlier through accurate diagnosis and precise localization that may allow for targeted treatments in the future.

9 Jun 2016

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

Robotics News

Researchers Expose Design Flaws in Hobby Drones

CSIC Launches Paediatric Exoskeleton for Children Suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy

March Networks, AMAG Technology Provide Unified IP Video Surveillance and Access Control Solution

March Networks Debuts New Video Over Coax Surveillance Camera, MegaPX DPoC MicroDome

String of Victories Puts Alabama Astrobotics in Spotlight

RIA Announces Recipients of Engelberger Robotics Award 2016

UAB Surgeons to Use Mona Lisa Robotic Device for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

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

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