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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

UPM Researchers Develop Intelligent Robotic System for Shoulder Rehabilitation

Researchers from UPM have developed an intelligent robotic system that improves the recovery of patients with shoulder injuries, a diseases that cause a high rate of sick leave.

22 Jan 2016

Teaming of UAVs and UGVs Helps Improve Safety of Warfighters

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, using a UH-60MU BLACK HAWK helicopter enabled with Sikorsky’s MATRIX™ Technology and CMU’s Land Tamer® autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), recently participated in a joint autonomy demonstration that proved the capability of new, ground-air cooperative missions.

21 Jan 2016

Biopsy Robot to Improve Diagnosis of Breast Cancer and Muscle Diseases

Researchers at the University of Twente in The Netherlands are working on a biopsy robot that combines the best features of MRI and ultrasound, aiming to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer and muscle diseases.

21 Jan 2016

Researchers Successfully Perform Deep-Sea Collection of Fragile Biological Specimens Using Soft Robotic Grippers

During a 2014 talk on his exploration of deep sea coral reefs, Baruch College marine biologist David Gruber showed a video of clunky robotic hands collecting fragile specimens of coral and sponges from the ocean floor.

21 Jan 2016

KAIST Researchers Develop Wall-Climbing Scout Drone to Fight Fires in High-Rises

A team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have created a scout drone with the capability to climb walls, in order to fight fires in high-rise buildings, locating the source of the fires as well as finding people trapped inside.

20 Jan 2016

Six Research Teams to Develop Innovative Solutions with KUKA Lightweight Robot LBR iiwa

Six research teams from around the world will be developing innovative solutions with the KUKA lightweight robot LBR iiwa between now and Hannover Messe 2016

20 Jan 2016

Qualcomm Institute Takes Over Machine Perception Lab and Diego-san Robot

Two years ago a team of six Ph.D. scientists at the University of California, San Diego decided to commercialize their artificial-intelligence (AI) technology for reading emotions based on facial recognition and analysis. They launched the startup, San Diego-based Emotient, Inc., which grew to more than 50 employees as of the end of 2015.

20 Jan 2016

Mayo Clinic Combats Hospital Germs Using Robots

Mayo Clinic has added robots in its fight against Clostridium difficile (C-diff) bacteria.

20 Jan 2016

INM Researchers Improve Adhesive Force in Gecomer Structures

Researchers at the INM have improved the adhesive force in their Gecomer® structures up to 20 kg per 25 cm2.

20 Jan 2016

Unison to Introduce Breakthrough New Machine Control Software at MACH 2016

The pioneers of all-electric tube bending technology, Unison, will release groundbreaking new machine control software at MACH. Among numerous new features are an extended 'teach' facility giving users unprecedented access to the underlying machine control code - effectively allowing virtually any aspect of machine operation to be controlled. All a user needs to do is right-click on the relevant part of any tube bending program, and the underlying code is presented in an easy to understand and editable form, allowing rapid changes to be made.

20 Jan 2016

CSAIL Researchers Develop Motion-Planning Algorithms that Allow Drones to Avoid Objects in Real-Time

Getting drones to fly around without hitting things is no small task. Obstacle-detection and motion-planning are two of computer science’s trickiest challenges, because of the complexity involved in creating real-time flight plans that avoid obstacles and handle surprises like wind and weather.

19 Jan 2016

Robotic Submarines Map Vulnerable Deep-Sea Coral Reefs in Southwest England

A fleet of robotic submarines, based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), head-quartered in in Southampton, have been used to map vulnerable cold-water coral reefs in the deep ocean off southwest England.

19 Jan 2016

Lockheed Martin Awarded Next-Generation Open and Secure Automation System Contract by ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to serve as the systems integrator in the early stage development of a next-generation open and secure automation system for process industries.

18 Jan 2016