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Wearable Robotic Limb Allows Drummers to Play with Three Arms

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a wearable robotic limb that allows drummers to play with three arms. The two-foot long “smart arm” can be attached to a musician’s shoulder. It responds to human gestures and the music it hears.

18 Feb 2016

Successful Completion of First Procedure with Magellan Robotic Catheter eKit in US

Hansen Medical®, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced the completion of the first clinical procedure in the United States with the Magellan™ Robotic Catheter eKit (MRC eKit). Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Ripal Gandhi, performed the procedure at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute (MCVI) in Miami, FL. Dr. Gandhi used the MRC eKit during a robotic transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) procedure.

18 Feb 2016

Bat-Inspired Membrane Wings Pave Way for New Unmanned Micro Air Vehicles

Researchers from the University of Southampton have designed innovative membrane wings inspired by bats, paving the way for a new breed of unmanned Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) that have improved aerodynamic properties, can fly over long distances and are more economical to run.

18 Feb 2016

USPTO Issues New Patent to ClearOne’s Multi-Camera/Multi-Display Video Conferencing

ClearOne, a global provider of audio and visual communication solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a new patent on technology that facilitates multi-camera/multi-display video conferencing.

17 Feb 2016

Transcriptic Robotic Cloud Laboratory Helps Researchers to Automate and Streamline Biology Research

Transcriptic, Inc., a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences, today announced a peer-reviewed study has been published in PLOS ONE that provides an example of how researchers are successfully using Transcriptic Workcells to automate and streamline their biology research.

17 Feb 2016

Singapore Airshow 2016: Milrem Debuts First-of-its-Kind Modular Hybrid UGV

Milrem, an Estonian defence solutions provider specialising in military engineering, unveils the first-of-its-kind modular hybrid unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), THeMIS (Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System), today at the Singapore Airshow 2016.

17 Feb 2016

Skyblade 360 UAV and Hydrogen-on-Demand Fuel Cell on Display at 2016 Singapore Airshow

A consortium of Singaporean institutions and private sector companies including HES Energy Systems, ST Aerospace, DSO National Laboratories, and the Future Systems and Technology Directorate of Singapore’s Ministry of Defense, have worked jointly to achieve a record 6 hour endurance, 300km flight on the Skyblade 360 UAV built in Singapore by ST Aerospace.

17 Feb 2016

Researchers Demonstrate Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm Capable of Moving Fingers Individually

Believed to be a first, biomedical engineers and physicians at the John Hopkins Medicine have reported their successful effort to wiggle fingers separately and individually, using a mind-controlled artificial "arm."

16 Feb 2016

Raytheon, U.S. Navy Successfully Complete Operational Test of JSOW C-1 Gliding Weapon

Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy have conducted a successful operational test of the new Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) C-1 gliding, precision-guided weapon. Conducted in a challenging flight environment, the test further demonstrated the capabilities of JSOW C-1 against a broad set of land targets.

16 Feb 2016

Surgeons and Administrators to Attend Seminar on Robotic Surgery at UAB

Surgeons and administrators from hospitals in 26 states and several foreign countries will attend the 2016 Academic Session on robotic-assisted surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The session, to be held Feb. 19-20, is co-sponsored by Intuitive Surgical, developers of the da Vinci surgical system, the most common surgical robots in use in the United States.

16 Feb 2016

ISO Publishes New Guidelines to Support Safety Requirements for Industrial Robots

Today the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published the long awaited ISO/TS 15066 as a supplementary document to support the ISO 10218 ‘Safety Requirements for Industrial Robots’ standard. ISO/TS 15066 is a comprehensive document to help integrators of robotic cells conduct risk assessments when installing collaborative robots.

16 Feb 2016

Latest Developments in Limb Prosthetics, Assistive Robotics, and Brain Computer Interfaces Revealed at AAAS 2016

Slicing bread, pouring a cup of coffee, and sitting down at the kitchen table are a part of everyday life for most people, but for people with physical impairments such as limb amputations or neurological lesions, these tasks can present an insurmountable challenge without support. Pooling their efforts, researchers from the engineering and medical sciences are on a quest for smarter, more precise assistive devices ultimately piloted by the patients' minds.

16 Feb 2016

DePaul University Archaeologist Demonstrates Utility of Drones for Site Documentation, Monitoring

“Drones are proving to be powerful new tools to archaeologists for documenting excavation, mapping landscapes and identifying buried features. They also can be applied to monitor site destruction and looting in the present,” said Morag M. Kersel, an assistant professor of anthropology at DePaul.

16 Feb 2016

New Paper Discusses Success of Tele-ICU Services in War-Affected Syria

Life-saving medical treatment can be readily deployed using modern cost-free social media applications in regions devastated by war, according to clinicians who launched the Syria Tele-ICU program in December 2012.

15 Feb 2016

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Help Scientists Conduct Low-Cost Ecohydrologic Investigations

Earth and environmental scientists have often had to rely on piloted aircraft and satellites to collect remote sensing data, platforms that have traditionally been controlled by large research organizations or regulatory agencies.

15 Feb 2016

Robotics News

Wearable Robotic Limb Allows Drummers to Play with Three Arms

Successful Completion of First Procedure with Magellan Robotic Catheter eKit in US

Bat-Inspired Membrane Wings Pave Way for New Unmanned Micro Air Vehicles

USPTO Issues New Patent to ClearOne’s Multi-Camera/Multi-Display Video Conferencing

Transcriptic Robotic Cloud Laboratory Helps Researchers to Automate and Streamline Biology Research

Singapore Airshow 2016: Milrem Debuts First-of-its-Kind Modular Hybrid UGV

Skyblade 360 UAV and Hydrogen-on-Demand Fuel Cell on Display at 2016 Singapore Airshow

Researchers Demonstrate Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm Capable of Moving Fingers Individually

Raytheon, U.S. Navy Successfully Complete Operational Test of JSOW C-1 Gliding Weapon

Surgeons and Administrators to Attend Seminar on Robotic Surgery at UAB

ISO Publishes New Guidelines to Support Safety Requirements for Industrial Robots

Latest Developments in Limb Prosthetics, Assistive Robotics, and Brain Computer Interfaces Revealed at AAAS 2016

DePaul University Archaeologist Demonstrates Utility of Drones for Site Documentation, Monitoring

New Paper Discusses Success of Tele-ICU Services in War-Affected Syria

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Help Scientists Conduct Low-Cost Ecohydrologic Investigations

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