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CuriosityStream to Host Live Free Streaming of DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

CuriosityStream hosts its first-ever live free streaming event with minute-by-minute coverage of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals (DRC), as well as exclusive original programs and behind-the-scenes footage on June 5 from 7am-4pm PT and June 6 from 8am-6:30pm PT.

5 Jun 2015

Smart Tracks Embedded with Sensors and Mechatronics to be Investigated for In2Rail Programme

The Institute of Railway Research will be investigating novel switches and crossings and looking at possibilities for new kinds of track system

5 Jun 2015

Multirotor Drones Market Estimated to Grow at 22.2% CAGR

According to the new market research report "Multirotor Drones Market by Application (Defense, Aerial Shooting, Business & Commerce, Law enforcement, Environmental Inspection), Payload (Electro-optic sensor, Cameras, Sense & Avoid System, LIDAR, CBRN, Wi-Fi, GPS), Region - Forecast to 2020"", published by MarketsandMarkets, the Multirotor Drones Market is estimated to be valued at $840.21 Million in 2015. It is projected to register a CAGR of 22.2% to reach $2.28 Billion by 2020.

5 Jun 2015

University of Southampton Selected as Partner to Operate New National Center of Excellence for UAS

The University of Southampton has been selected as the sole UK partner to help operate the new National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (COE UAS) in the United States.

5 Jun 2015

Twenty Robotics Teams to Compete in NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge

Twenty robotics teams, ranging from university students to small businesses, are preparing to compete June 8-13 in the fourth running of the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge for a prize purse of $1.5 million.

4 Jun 2015

Alabama Astrobotics Wins NASA Robotic Mining Competition

The University of Alabama is used to having teams that win national championships. Alabama Astrobotics, a robotics team made up of Shelton State and UA students, added a different kind of title to the University’s tally with its recent performance at this year’s Robotic Mining Competition hosted  by NASA.

4 Jun 2015

Student Trains with Human Patient Simulators through Telepresence Robot

Scott Kelemen had a busy few months during his final semester as an Indiana State University nursing student.

4 Jun 2015

FAA Grants Sanborn Section 333 Exemption to Commercially Operate UAS Flights

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) approval to commercially operate an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under the agency's Section 333 Exemption. The exemption permits Sanborn to offer UAS-based services to its customers immediately.

4 Jun 2015

Rehab Week 2015 to Kick Off with Inaugural Ekso Clinical Science Organization Meeting

Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc., a robotic exoskeleton company, announced today that their participation in Rehab Week 2015, Valencia Spain, will kick off with an inaugural Ekso Clinical Science Organization (ECSO) meeting.

From Ekso Bionics 4 Jun 2015

Magellan Robotic System Used in Radioembolization Procedures for Cancer Treatment

Hansen Medical®, Inc., the global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced the completion of the world's first robotically-assisted radioembolization procedures for cancer treatment.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 4 Jun 2015

Humanoid Robots Could Help Improve Social and Communication Skills in Autistic Children

A year ago, when her son Bobby, now 10, was first diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Jamie Lee wasn’t surprised. “By age 2, he didn’t crawl,” she recalls. “And there were other developmental issues.”

4 Jun 2015

New MIT System Generates Lower-Level Control Systems to Help Robots Handle Uncertainty

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes are a way to model autonomous robots’ behavior in circumstances where neither their communication with each other nor their judgments about the outside world are perfect.

3 Jun 2015

DARPA Robotics Challenge Finalists to Integrate HRI's Wireless Emergency Stop Technology into their Robots

Humanistic Robotics, Inc. (HRI), a robotics and technology innovator dedicated to making the world safer through engineering and design, has teamed up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to heighten the safety at the final "showdown" of the DARPA Robotics Finals, June 5-6, 2015.

3 Jun 2015

NASA Places Additional Order for Medigus' Micro ScoutCam for Robotic Refueling Mission

Medigus Ltd., a medical device company developing minimally invasive endosurgical tools and a leader in direct visualization technology, announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded them with an additional supply order of Medigus' micro ScoutCamTM technology, consisting of specially designed miniature video cameras and advance video processing equipment, for use on NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM).

3 Jun 2015

Texas A&M Robotic Hummingbird Featured in IEEE Spectrum

Research conducted in the Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory (AVFL) at Texas A&M University was featured in the recent IEEE Spectrum online magazine.

3 Jun 2015

Robotics News

CuriosityStream to Host Live Free Streaming of DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

Smart Tracks Embedded with Sensors and Mechatronics to be Investigated for In2Rail Programme

Multirotor Drones Market Estimated to Grow at 22.2% CAGR

University of Southampton Selected as Partner to Operate New National Center of Excellence for UAS

Twenty Robotics Teams to Compete in NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge

Alabama Astrobotics Wins NASA Robotic Mining Competition

Student Trains with Human Patient Simulators through Telepresence Robot

FAA Grants Sanborn Section 333 Exemption to Commercially Operate UAS Flights

Rehab Week 2015 to Kick Off with Inaugural Ekso Clinical Science Organization Meeting

Magellan Robotic System Used in Radioembolization Procedures for Cancer Treatment

Humanoid Robots Could Help Improve Social and Communication Skills in Autistic Children

New MIT System Generates Lower-Level Control Systems to Help Robots Handle Uncertainty

DARPA Robotics Challenge Finalists to Integrate HRI's Wireless Emergency Stop Technology into their Robots

NASA Places Additional Order for Medigus' Micro ScoutCam for Robotic Refueling Mission

Texas A&M Robotic Hummingbird Featured in IEEE Spectrum

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