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Bumi Armada Berhad Selects ABB to Provide Power and Automation Solutions for FPSO Vessel

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from offshore services provider Bumi Armada Berhad to supply electrification and automation systems for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for a recently discovered oilfield off the coast of Angola. The order was booked in the first quarter.

17 Jun 2015

Media Coalition Launches Research Testing of UAS for News Gathering

A coalition of 15 leading news media companies today launched research testing of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for news gathering in partnership with Virginia Tech, one of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-designated test sites for drone research.

17 Jun 2015

‘The Restless Genius’ to Keynote at RoboBusiness

Ray Kurzweil, called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes, will keynote at RoboBusiness this September in San Jose, CA.

16 Jun 2015

BlueTT Monitoring System Generates Relevant Information About Traffic Conditions

Researchers at UPM have developed an application that generates traffic information of cities and roads by detecting the Bluetooth device boarded on vehicles.

16 Jun 2015

Fully Integrated Gas Turbine Engine System for UAV Propulsion Technology from UAV Turbines

UAV Turbines, Inc. (UAVT) announced that it will be demonstrating for select companies its fully integrated proprietary propulsion system that includes a small engine, filters, a 3kW generator, control system, display, and gas tank to be contained in an enclosed unit that is the size of a mini-refrigerator. This "Engine-in-a-Box," displays system level integration of UAVT's gas turbine technology.

16 Jun 2015

HTE Technologies to Market Adept's Robots in Missouri, Kansas and Southern Illinois

Adept Technology, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent robots, autonomous mobile solutions and services, announced today that it has added a new distributor, HTE Technologies, Inc. A full-service automation provider, HTE Technologies will market and support Adept's portfolio of industrial robots and autonomous mobile robots in Missouri, Kansas and Southern Illinois.

16 Jun 2015

Indiana State University Receives Approval to Offer Bachelor's Degree in Unmanned Systems

Indiana State University's unmanned systems program has received another boost with approval to offer a bachelor's degree beginning this fall.

16 Jun 2015

Clinical Reach’s ReachLink Connector to send patient data securely to Sentrian’s remote patient monitoring platform

Parallel 6, an innovator in enterprise mobile engagement and management solutions, and Sentrian™, the Remote Patient Intelligence™ company aspiring to eliminate all preventable hospitalization, announced today as technology partners, Clinical Reach’s ReachLink Connector will send patient data securely from the palm of the patient's hand to Sentrian’s remote patient monitoring platform (Sentrian RPI).

16 Jun 2015

Festo Introduces Linear Actuator DFPI-NB3 with Integrated Displacement Encoder

The harsher the environmental conditions, the more robust process automation actuators must be. The new linear actuator DFPI-NB3 from Festo is exceptionally tough thanks to its integrated displacement encoder.

15 Jun 2015

EU Robo-Mate Exoskeleton Can Help Production Workers

EU Robo-Mate project presents first prototype of an exoskeleton to help production workers.

15 Jun 2015

NASA Awards $100,000 to Mountaineers Team for Completing Sample Return Robot Challenge Level 2

NASA has awarded $100,000 in prize money to the Mountaineers, a team from West Virginia University, Morgantown, for successfully completing Level 2 of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, part of the agency's Centennial Challenges prize program.

15 Jun 2015

Spanish Robot That Could Establish Visual and Linguistic Interaction with Human Interlocutor

The aim of the research carried out by the Computational Cognitive Robotics Group from the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Computing Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is the development of a Spanish pioneering robot that can establish visual and linguistic interaction with a human interlocutor.

15 Jun 2015

ACHEMA 2015: Festo to Showcase Autonomous, Swimming Jellyfish and Floating eMotionSpheres

Festo‘s bionic projects illustrate how networking and real-time communication can work in process automation. At ACHEMA 2015, the 31st international trade fair for process industry taking place from the 15th to the 19th of June in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Festo will present two of those projects at once. In hall 8, stand C72 Festo shows the autonomous, swimming jellyfish AquaJellies 2.0; in hall 11, stand G44 the floating eMotionSpheres. Both projects use principles from nature and demonstrate how these can be applied in automation technology.

15 Jun 2015

SAVIC Selects Elbit Systems of America's Enhanced Vision System for COMAC C919 Aircraft

Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Shanghai Avionics Corporation (SAVIC) to provide the Kollsman Enhanced Vision System-Superior Performance (EVS-SP™) for the COMAC C919 aircraft. Elbit Systems of America, working with official sales representative, East Wonder, Inc. secured the contract with SAVIC which enables future operators of the C919 to select the EVS-SP through the aircraft manufacturer.

15 Jun 2015

DENSO Robotics Provides Three Robots for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Movie

DENSO robots have made it onto the big screen and can be seen in Marvel Studio’s latest release “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, a blockbuster movie that has already grossed 1.3 billion US dollars in theaters around the world since its release on May 1st. Marvel’s "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time.

15 Jun 2015

Robotics News

Bumi Armada Berhad Selects ABB to Provide Power and Automation Solutions for FPSO Vessel

Media Coalition Launches Research Testing of UAS for News Gathering

‘The Restless Genius’ to Keynote at RoboBusiness

BlueTT Monitoring System Generates Relevant Information About Traffic Conditions

Fully Integrated Gas Turbine Engine System for UAV Propulsion Technology from UAV Turbines

HTE Technologies to Market Adept's Robots in Missouri, Kansas and Southern Illinois

Indiana State University Receives Approval to Offer Bachelor's Degree in Unmanned Systems

Clinical Reach’s ReachLink Connector to send patient data securely to Sentrian’s remote patient monitoring platform

Festo Introduces Linear Actuator DFPI-NB3 with Integrated Displacement Encoder

EU Robo-Mate Exoskeleton Can Help Production Workers

NASA Awards $100,000 to Mountaineers Team for Completing Sample Return Robot Challenge Level 2

Spanish Robot That Could Establish Visual and Linguistic Interaction with Human Interlocutor

ACHEMA 2015: Festo to Showcase Autonomous, Swimming Jellyfish and Floating eMotionSpheres

SAVIC Selects Elbit Systems of America's Enhanced Vision System for COMAC C919 Aircraft

DENSO Robotics Provides Three Robots for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Movie

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NASA and IBM Unveil AI Model That Predicts Solar Flares with 16% More Accuracy

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