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Automakers to Discuss Critical Role of HMI in TU-Automotive Webinar

TU-Automotive has announced that speakers from Volkswagen, Peugeot Citroen PSA, Continental and SBD Consulting will speak on the critical role of HMI in driving ADAS technological capability and consumer acceptance in TU-Automotive’s HMI webinar, “HMI and the Changing Role of the Driver” on February 11th.

4 Feb 2016

NDIA to Hold 2016 Ground Robotics Capability Conference and Exhibition in March

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) announces it will hold its annual Ground Robotics Capability Conference and Exhibition at The Waterford in Springfield, VA from March 2-3, 2016.

4 Feb 2016

Konica Minolta Installs Savioke Relay Robot at Two Hospitality Properties

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., (Konica Minolta) announced today that it has completed installations of Savioke's hospitality robot, called Relay, at two hospitality properties.

4 Feb 2016

PatternEx Introduces Unique Artificial Intelligence Solution to Predict Cyber Attacks in Real Time

PatternEx™, the pioneer in Artificial Intelligence for information security, today launched the company and its PatternEx Threat Prediction Platform that creates "virtual security analysts" that mimic the intuition of human security analysts in real time and at scale. Based on real world datasets, the PatternEx Threat Prediction Platform detects ten times more threats with five times fewer false positives compared with approaches based on Machine Learning-Anomaly Detection technology.

4 Feb 2016

Hansen Medical Receives FDA clearance for Magellan Robotic Catheter eKit

Hansen Medical®, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the Magellan™ Robotic Catheter eKit (MRC eKit).

3 Feb 2016

AeroVironment's RQ-20A Puma AE UAS to Help Coast Guard's Polar Star Conduct Ice-Breaking Operations

In a development that takes the life-saving capabilities of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to one of the most remote and unforgiving regions on earth, AeroVironment, Inc. today announced it and a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been contracted to provide the U.S. Coast Guard ice breaker Polar Star with a RQ-20A Puma™ AE unmanned aircraft system and a flight crew for the annual joint "Operation Deep Freeze," the military component of the larger, civilian-managed U.S. Antarctic Program to re-supply the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station. The Operation Deep Freeze joint team departed Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, on December 30, 2015 and reached McMurdo Station on January 18, 2016.

3 Feb 2016

Royal Reesink Reaches Agreement for Acquisition of Lely Turf Care Activities

On February 1st Royal Reesink N.V. and Lely Holding S.àr.L (‘Lely’) have reached agreement in principle with regarding the acquisition of the turf care activities of Lely in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark.

3 Feb 2016

USC Researcher Awarded Grant to Create Brain-Computer Interface for Treatment of Stroke Survivors

To accomplish this task, your brain will send a signal that will pass from neuron to neuron all the way down your arm to your hand to your fingers, which will grasp the latte, bring it to your lips and, ah, frothy, caffeinated goodness.

3 Feb 2016

MIT Researchers Present New Chip Specifically Designed to Implement Neural Networks

In recent years, some of the most exciting advances in artificial intelligence have come courtesy of convolutional neural networks, large virtual networks of simple information-processing units, which are loosely modeled on the anatomy of the human brain.

3 Feb 2016

Fellow Robots, Nihon Unisys Team Up to Provide Autonomous Service Robots for Use in Yamada Denki

Fellow Robots, a privately-held Silicon Valley robotics company, has teamed up with Nihon Unisys, Ltd. (Headquarters: Koto-Ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Shigeru Kurokawa), to provide Autonomous Service Robots for use in retail establishment Yamada Denki Co. Ltd. (Headquarters: Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture; President & CEO: Noboru Yamada) in Tokyo area starting February 1, 2016.

3 Feb 2016

CubeSat to Study Solar Particles to Launched from NASA’s Space Launch System in Late 2018

Just a bit bigger than a box of cereal, one of the first CubeSats to travel in interplanetary space will be NASA’s miniature space science station, dedicated to studying the dynamic particles and magnetic fields that stream from the sun.

3 Feb 2016

NASA Successfully Inspects International Space Station’s Robotic Arm, Canadarm2

Gas station attendant, electronics installer, home inspector: is there any fix-it job that NASA’s Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) can’t tackle during its four-year career? As NASA takes a break in RRM operations, it’s looking back on past achievements and celebrating one of its latest accomplishments - the successful inspection of Canadarm2, the International Space Station’s (ISS) robotic arm. In time, this visual inspection capability may help future servicing ventures at other orbits inspect for damage and failures on their spacecraft.

2 Feb 2016

Older Adults Fear Autonomous Robot Helpers

Senior citizens would likely accept robots as helpers and entertainment providers, but are leery of giving up too much control to the machines, according to researchers.

2 Feb 2016

Fraunhofer Researchers Design Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Seabed Exploration

Autonomous underwater vehicles are essential for tasks such as exploring the seabed in search of oil or minerals. Fraunhofer researchers have designed the first robust, lightweight and powerful vehicle intended for series production.

2 Feb 2016

Hansen Medical Elaborates on Evaluation of Catheter Contact Force Measurements Using RNS in Recent Publication

Hansen Medical, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced the latest publication in the Journal of Cardiac Electrophysiology: Analysis of catheter contact force during atrial fibrillation ablation, using the robotic navigation system: results from a randomized study.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 2 Feb 2016