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Fraunhofer Researchers Control Cell Production Process Using Fully Automated Equipment

Industry 4.0 requires comprehensive data collection in order to control highly automated process sequences in complex production environments. One example is the cultivation of living cells. But digitalizing and networking biotech production equipment is a huge challenge: relevant standards have yet to be established, and biology has a dynamic all its own. Using fully automated equipment for producing stem cells, Fraunhofer researchers have managed to adjust the process control to cell growth – delivering an adaptive system that is suitable for use in a number of sectors.

28 Jan 2016

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Team Installs Mirror Using High-Precision Robotic Arm

Inside a massive clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team is steadily installing the largest space telescope mirror ever. Unlike other space telescope mirrors, this one must be pieced together from segments using a high-precision robotic arm.

28 Jan 2016

Organic Robotics Lab Uses Soft Materials Found in Nature to Create Robots

If you think of a robot, you’re probably picturing C-3PO, Ultron or Wall-E. But what if robots don’t need to be big, humanoid and upright? What if they aren’t even made of metal?

28 Jan 2016

KUKA Lightweight Robot Could Interact with Humans to Enhance Production Processes

In the age of Industry 4.0, “smart factories” are developing at an unprecedented rate. Nowadays, automated, networked and variable production lines are in high demand as companies aim to respond quickly and flexibly to ever shorter product life cycles.

27 Jan 2016

Kespry Selected to Provide Commercial Drone Systems to Support Woolpert's Site Surveying and Mapping Needs

Kespry Inc., which designs automated drone systems for commercial use, today announced that it has been selected by Woolpert to provide commercial drone systems to support the company’s site surveying and mapping needs.

27 Jan 2016

RPVaero Simplifies Drone Authorization Process as FAA Initiates COAs and FAA 333 Exemptions for RPV Use

In December 2015, the FAA initiated specific rules governing the use of unmanned aircraft. Registration for the vast majority of drone types has become mandatory and all use of unmanned aircraft in the commercial or government realm are now required to obtain a special Certificate of Authorization (COA) or a FAA 333 Exemption depending on its use. These applications are complex, lengthy, and time consuming to prepare.

27 Jan 2016

Upstate Medical University Physicians Report Use of Robotic-Assisted Surgery in Complex IVC Thrombus Case

Physicians at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse describe in the December issue of Urology the first case ever in which doctors used minimally invasive robotic surgery to perform a radical nephrectomy (removal of entire kidney) with a level III inferior vena cava thrombectomy (removal of a tumor from the largest vein that carries blood to the heart).

27 Jan 2016

UCLA Researchers Use Robotic Testing System to Study ACL Injuries

Bioengineering researcher Keith Markolf frequently gets this question when colleagues visiting from around the world first lay eyes on the 8-foot-tall, pumpkin-orange behemoth dominating the UCLA Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory at UCLA’s Rehabilitation Center.

27 Jan 2016

Hollysys Signs Contract to Provide Proprietary Distributed Control System to Shenhua Jiujiang Power Plant

Hollysys Automation Technologies, Ltd. ("Hollysys" or the "Company"), a leading provider of automation and control technologies and applications in China, announced today that it has signed a contract to provide its proprietary Distributed Control System ("DCS") for 2x1052MW ultra-supercritical coal-fire power generating units to Shenhua Jiujiang Power Plant. The units are expected to go into operation at beginning of the year 2017.

25 Jan 2016

Advantech Introduces Compact Modular IPC Platform Along with Innovative Optional Expansion i-Modules

Advantech (2395.TW), a leading global provider of intelligent systems and platform solutions across multiple vertical markets, is pleased to announce the launch of MIC-7500, a compact modular inter-process communication (IPC) platform, along with Advantech’s innovative optional expansion i-modules.

25 Jan 2016

New Robotic Arm Could Support Daily Activities of Patients Suffering Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Researchers from the MIRA research centre, together with the VUmc, TU Delft and the Radboud umc, have developed the A-Gear: a robotic arm that can support the daily activities of people suffering the muscular disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. They recently put the final touches to the first prototype for a discreet, body-connected support aid that can be worn under the clothing and that can support independent operation of the arm during important daily activities.

25 Jan 2016

Alpha Along with Top Robot Developers Builds China’s First "Smart Home Ecosystem"

Alpha Smart Technologies’ S Plan is a $304 million initiative, which aims to create a variety of smart devices including smart robots and smart watches. The company partnered with top robot developers and manufacturers, Turing Robot and Blue Frog Robotics, to construct the first "Smart Home Ecosystem” in China.

25 Jan 2016

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Scoops and Sieves Sand

NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity is currently inspecting an active sand dune, using some sample-processing moves never before used on Mars.

22 Jan 2016

Students from Four States Compete in Texas BEST Regional Robotics Championship

UT Dallas recently hosted the BEST Regional Championship for Robotics at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. More than 3,200 students from four states competed to see which robot design could best extract five natural resources — coal, iron, aluminum, copper and lithium — from a pretend mine.

22 Jan 2016

Raytheon Awarded $2.5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop Lightweight Systems to Boost Effectiveness of Infantry Squads

DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense's advanced research and technology branch, has awarded a $2.5 million, Phase One contract to Raytheon Company to develop new technologies to boost the effectiveness and safety of infantry squads.

22 Jan 2016

Robotics News

Fraunhofer Researchers Control Cell Production Process Using Fully Automated Equipment

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Team Installs Mirror Using High-Precision Robotic Arm

Organic Robotics Lab Uses Soft Materials Found in Nature to Create Robots

KUKA Lightweight Robot Could Interact with Humans to Enhance Production Processes

Kespry Selected to Provide Commercial Drone Systems to Support Woolpert's Site Surveying and Mapping Needs

RPVaero Simplifies Drone Authorization Process as FAA Initiates COAs and FAA 333 Exemptions for RPV Use

Upstate Medical University Physicians Report Use of Robotic-Assisted Surgery in Complex IVC Thrombus Case

UCLA Researchers Use Robotic Testing System to Study ACL Injuries

Hollysys Signs Contract to Provide Proprietary Distributed Control System to Shenhua Jiujiang Power Plant

Advantech Introduces Compact Modular IPC Platform Along with Innovative Optional Expansion i-Modules

New Robotic Arm Could Support Daily Activities of Patients Suffering Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Alpha Along with Top Robot Developers Builds China’s First "Smart Home Ecosystem"

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Scoops and Sieves Sand

Students from Four States Compete in Texas BEST Regional Robotics Championship

Raytheon Awarded $2.5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop Lightweight Systems to Boost Effectiveness of Infantry Squads

News Categories

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

AI Framework from University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca Enhances Protein Design for Drug Development

New Hydrophilic Magnetic Soft Robot Enables High-Speed, Precise Droplet Manipulation for Biomedical and Chemical Applications

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

Tiny Robot Duo Could Change the Way We Inspect Complex Machinery

What Big Pharma Isn’t Telling You About AI Labs

AI Governance Frameworks for Scientific Applications

Inside the Cross-Sector Collaborations Driving AI in Biotech

Thought Leaders

Robot Chef: The Future of Automated Meal Preparation

Tiny Robotic Crab: The Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot

Resurrecting Ancient Cephalopods with Robots