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Tractica Releases New Report on Drones for Commercial Applications

The utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) or drones, for commercial applications has a great deal of potential to be explored and exploited.

22 Jul 2015

ABB Receives $28 Million Gas Insulated Switchgear Substations Order from PGCIL, India

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $28 million from India’s leading transmission company, PowerGrid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), for the extension of three substations in Vadodara, Manesar and Malerkotla, across the country’s eastern and northern regions.

22 Jul 2015

Exclusive Commercial Licenses for Georgia Tech UAV Simulation Tool Autopilot System Acquired by Drone Aviation

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., manufacturer of lighter-than-air aerostats and tethered drones, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire exclusive commercial software licenses for the "GUST" autopilot system from Adaptive Flight, Inc. Through the purchase of the assets of privately held Adaptive Flight Inc. (AFI), DAC is assuming the transferable licenses from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation which include flight simulation tools and fault tolerant flight control algorithms.

22 Jul 2015

Stanford Students Design Robots to Play and Perform Fundamental Skills

After learning new software and programming languages, Stanford students in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have an opportunity to choose a creative task and design a robot to perform the task for demonstration.

21 Jul 2015

Talem Technologies Receives $70,000 Grant for Pilot Study of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy’s Robotic Technology

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) announced today that it has awarded Talem Technologies a grant for over $70,000 to support a pilot study of their X-Ar exoskeletal arm technology. The grant announcement follows PPMD's launch this spring of their Robotics Initiative which explores devices in development that have the potential to assist people living with Duchenne.

21 Jul 2015

BZ Media Announces InterDrone Technical Conference at Las Vegas from September 9 to 11

BZ Media LLC announced today the InterDrone™ technical conference featuring more than 104 classes, panels and keynotes. The event will debut at the Rio in Las Vegas, Sept. 9-10-11, and will also include an Exhibit Hall with more than 85 industry-leading exhibitors, a Yes-Fly Zone for drone demos, the InterDrone Film Festival, and the Women in Drones Networking Luncheon.

21 Jul 2015

Cogobuy‘s INGDAN.com Platform Holds Robotics Industry Conference in Shanghai on July 9, 2015

Cogobuy Group ("Cogobuy" or the "Company"), the largest e-commerce service platform for enterprise procurement in the electronics manufacturing industry in China, is pleased to announce its INGDAN.com platform (Hardeggs platform), a leading intelligent hardware innovation business platform of the Company, successfully held the Robotics Industry Conference in Shanghai on July 9, 2015.

21 Jul 2015

Georgia Tech Robots to Play Concert at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

A team of robots and researchers from Georgia Tech’s Center for Music Technology is headed to Washington, D.C., to play a concert at the historic Kennedy Center. Professor Gil Weinberg and his machines, Shimon and three Shimi robots, will perform July 22 on the Center’s Millennium Stage.

21 Jul 2015

NASA-Assisted Drone Successfully Delivers Medical Supplies to Outdoor Free Clinic in Wise County

Some underserved Virginia patients were among the first to be officially helped by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), more commonly known as a drone, during research flights to a medical clinic in Wise County Friday.

20 Jul 2015

Energid Technologies to Develop Physics-based Robot Simulation to Support New NASA Missions

Energid Technologies Corporation has been funded by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a new robot simulation that accommodates uncertainty and discovers exceptional behaviors during mission planning.

20 Jul 2015

PTFS to Introduce Droneware GeoCMS for Unmanned Aerial Systems at 2015 Esri User Conference

Progressive Technology Federal Systems Inc. (PTFS), today introduced Droneware™, a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Droneware facilitates the storage, discovery and dissemination of virtually any type of sensor data captured by a UAS or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

20 Jul 2015

Researchers Discuss Recent, Remarkable Progress in AI and its Potential Implications for Humankind

Artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to machines that can match humans at chess, rival them in the stock market, and aid them in the clinic. But researchers' ultimate goal is to create a well-rounded, human-like computer program -- an aspiration that raises many questions and poses a wide range of challenges.

17 Jul 2015

Bacteria-Controlled Brains for Robots

Forget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation -- as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is the next frontier.

17 Jul 2015

Teledyne DALSA Releases Low-Cost, High Resolution 16k CMOS Line Scan Camera

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision, today announced the release of its high resolution 16k line scan camera - the latest addition to its Linea™ series of low-cost, high-value cameras. Linea cameras address the mainstream market for machine vision applications and deliver high speed and responsivity at an exceptional price point.

17 Jul 2015

Canon Launches 3-D Machine Vision Systems in the U.S

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the entry into the growing machine vision market in the U.S., with the launch of 3-D Machine Vision Systems, models RV300, RV500 and RV1100. Designed for use with industrial robots, these systems are capable of high-speed, high-accuracy three-dimensional recognition of objects. The systems in combination with a robotic arm can help increase production efficiencies in factories by facilitating the automatic high-speed supply of parts to production lines.

17 Jul 2015

Robotics News

Tractica Releases New Report on Drones for Commercial Applications

ABB Receives $28 Million Gas Insulated Switchgear Substations Order from PGCIL, India

Exclusive Commercial Licenses for Georgia Tech UAV Simulation Tool Autopilot System Acquired by Drone Aviation

Stanford Students Design Robots to Play and Perform Fundamental Skills

Talem Technologies Receives $70,000 Grant for Pilot Study of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy’s Robotic Technology

BZ Media Announces InterDrone Technical Conference at Las Vegas from September 9 to 11

Cogobuy‘s INGDAN.com Platform Holds Robotics Industry Conference in Shanghai on July 9, 2015

Georgia Tech Robots to Play Concert at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

NASA-Assisted Drone Successfully Delivers Medical Supplies to Outdoor Free Clinic in Wise County

Energid Technologies to Develop Physics-based Robot Simulation to Support New NASA Missions

PTFS to Introduce Droneware GeoCMS for Unmanned Aerial Systems at 2015 Esri User Conference

Researchers Discuss Recent, Remarkable Progress in AI and its Potential Implications for Humankind

Bacteria-Controlled Brains for Robots

Teledyne DALSA Releases Low-Cost, High Resolution 16k CMOS Line Scan Camera

Canon Launches 3-D Machine Vision Systems in the U.S

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