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Researchers Develop Stretchable, Glowing Robot Skin

A group of graduate students from Cornell University have developed a unique electroluminescent skin that can be stretched to almost six times its actual size, but still produces light even under increased amounts of strain. This latest breakthrough holds the potential to transform a wide range of industries, including health care, electronic communication, and transportation.

7 Mar 2016

Mazor Robotics Announces Achievement of New Clinical Milestone

Mazor Robotics, a pioneer in surgical guidance systems for spine and brain surgery, announced today a new clinical milestone with the successful completion of over 150 complex spine cases, performed with the Renaissance® system, by Dr. Kornelis Poelstra, at Sacred Heart Hospital Emerald Coast in Florida.

4 Mar 2016

Flushing Raider Robotics Team Uses Space in FRCC at Kettering University

The Flushing Raider Robotics Team 5561 was created for students to learn to work together as a team, gain professionalism and gather engineering and programming skills they can’t get in their high school classrooms.

4 Mar 2016

VGo Robot Celia Helps Hospital-Bound Children Break Free

Robots in medicine is a readily growing trend in making life easier for patients and doctors alike. Now the St. Louis Children’s Hospital paediatric cancer robots play a role in looking out for the social and psychological needs of patients as well.

4 Mar 2016

bObsweep Launches Multifunctional Autonomous Floor Cleaner with Powerful Suction

bObsweep, Canada's pioneering robotic vacuum manufacturer, launched the new bObsweep PetHair Plus, a multifunctional autonomous floor cleaner that boasts the strongest, most powerful suction to date.

4 Mar 2016

Initiation of Innovative Project to Develop Novel Surgical Robotic System

Initiated by Professor Yeung Chung-Kwong (Prof Yeung), Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), a team of experienced engineers led by Professor Yung Kai-Leung (Prof Yung), Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was invited to develop the system as an engineering partner since 2012.

4 Mar 2016

Illinois State Students Explore Potentially Groundbreaking Applications of Drones for Commercial Uses

Illinois State students from across campus are exploring the potentially groundbreaking applications of drones for commercial uses.

4 Mar 2016

BYU’s Origami-Inspired Technology Licensed to Robotic Surgery Expert, Intuitive Surgical

BYU mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of origami to engineering. Now they’re applying their origami skills to a new realm: the human body.

3 Mar 2016

Meta’s First Natural Machine Augmented Reality Product Now Available for Pre-Orders

Meta has begun taking pre-orders at www.metavision.com for Meta 2 Development Kit, the first augmented reality (AR) product that delivers a totally immersive experience unlike any other AR product to date. Meta 2 enables hand interaction with digital content, a breakthrough in the field of AR, so people can touch, grab, and move digital objects intuitively, just as they do in the real world.

3 Mar 2016

DJI Unveils First Consumer Quadcopter Camera, Phantom 4

DJI, the world's leading maker of unmanned aerial vehicles, on Tuesday launched the Phantom 4, the first consumer quadcopter camera (or "drone") to use highly advanced computer vision and sensing technology to make professional aerial imaging easier for everyone.

2 Mar 2016

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Agribotix for Developing Superior Agricultural Drones

Based on its recent analysis of the precision agriculture (PA) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Agribotix LLC with the 2016 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology Leadership. Agribotix's Enduro™ and Hornet™ agricultural drones, along with its FarmLens™ data analytics platform, have emerged the ideal PA solution set. Using these innovations, farmers can increase crop yield and improve quality, and make farming more efficient and profitable.

2 Mar 2016

SYNNEX Canada Sponsors Greater Toronto Central Region FIRST Robotics Competition

As a part of the company’s corporate social responsibility initiative, SYNNEX Canada Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SYNNEX Corporation, a leading Technology Solutions distributor, announces its continued investment in the development of the future IT workforce through its sponsorship of the Greater Toronto Central Region For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics competition on March 4-5 at Ryerson University as a part of its long-standing involvement with FIRST Canada.

2 Mar 2016

First-In-Human Use of Miniaturized Robotically Assisted Surgical Device for Colon Resection

Virtual Incision Corporation today announced the successful first-in-human use of its miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device (RASD) for colon resection, a procedure performed to treat patients with lower gastrointestinal diseases. These diseases include diverticulitis, colon polyps that are too large to be removed endoscopically, pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions of the colon, and inflammatory bowel disease.

2 Mar 2016

Neato's Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum Provides Users Control Right from Apple and Android Smartwatches

Enhancements to the app that starts, stops and monitors Neato’s Wi-Fi enabled Botvac™ Connected robot vacuum now give users control right from Apple and Android smartwatches. Available today, the automatic upgrade brings new functionality to Neato’s smartest and most powerful robot vacuum.

2 Mar 2016

Open-Source Software Turns Human's Motions into Instructions Robot Can Understand

Madeline Gannon (A 2016), a Ph.D. candidate in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture, has put the power of interacting with robots into our hands — literally.

2 Mar 2016

Robotics News

Researchers Develop Stretchable, Glowing Robot Skin

Mazor Robotics Announces Achievement of New Clinical Milestone

Flushing Raider Robotics Team Uses Space in FRCC at Kettering University

VGo Robot Celia Helps Hospital-Bound Children Break Free

bObsweep Launches Multifunctional Autonomous Floor Cleaner with Powerful Suction

Initiation of Innovative Project to Develop Novel Surgical Robotic System

Illinois State Students Explore Potentially Groundbreaking Applications of Drones for Commercial Uses

BYU’s Origami-Inspired Technology Licensed to Robotic Surgery Expert, Intuitive Surgical

Meta’s First Natural Machine Augmented Reality Product Now Available for Pre-Orders

DJI Unveils First Consumer Quadcopter Camera, Phantom 4

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Agribotix for Developing Superior Agricultural Drones

SYNNEX Canada Sponsors Greater Toronto Central Region FIRST Robotics Competition

First-In-Human Use of Miniaturized Robotically Assisted Surgical Device for Colon Resection

Neato's Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum Provides Users Control Right from Apple and Android Smartwatches

Open-Source Software Turns Human's Motions into Instructions Robot Can Understand

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