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UAVs Help Study Migrating Gray Whale Mother and Her Calf

One recent spring day, John Durban, a NOAA Fisheries marine mammal biologist, stood on the California coast and launched an unmanned aerial vehicle into the air.

29 May 2015

ZTR Control Systems Releases Telematics Package for Portable GENSETs

ZTR Control Systems, the principal leader in industrial telematics equipment monitoring and management, has just released a new package specifically designed with the portable GENSET in mind. Whether providing power to a construction site, a well site, or to a community fair, ZTR has the GENSET telematics solution.

29 May 2015

Analysis and Forecast Report on North America UAV Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "North America Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market by Class Type, by Application, by Geography - Analysis and Forecast to 2019" report to their offering.

29 May 2015

Toyohashi Tech Develops Medical Round Support Robot

Given the aging of the population and the low birthrate both in Japan and elsewhere, healthcare professionals are in short supply and unevenly distributed, giving rise to a need for alternatives to humans for performing simple tasks.

29 May 2015

MRI-Powered Robots Could Enable Minimally Invasive Medical Treatments

Seeking to advance minimally invasive medical treatments, researchers have proposed using tiny robots, driven by magnetic potential energy from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners.

28 May 2015

MIT Researchers Propose New Algorithm to Help Robot Teams Perform Assembly Tasks

Today’s industrial robots are remarkably efficient — as long as they’re in a controlled environment where everything is exactly where they expect it to be.

28 May 2015

Robots Can Now Automatically Recover from Injury

Robots will one day provide tremendous benefits to society, such as in search and rescue missions and putting out forest fires -- but not until they can learn to keep working if they become damaged.

28 May 2015

Service-Drone Announces Availability of Recon One Multirotor UAS

Once again, an industry-first, MULTIROTOR service-drone announces the upcoming availability of its Recon One multirotor Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Specifically developed for reliable, autonomous long-duration flights of up to 90 minutes, the Recon One is capable of carrying payloads of 500g and up under special configurations.

28 May 2015

New Epson CV2 Vision Systems with Rapid Processing and Excellent Resolution Support

Epson Robots, a global leader in advanced robotic and factory automation technology, introduces the new Epson CV2 Vision Systems. With speeds up to 8x faster than our popular CV1 vision systems, Epson CV2 Vision Systems provide tremendous processing power to help reduce cycle times and increase throughput.

28 May 2015

Technavio's Report on the Global Industrial Robotics Market Forecasts Automotive Industry Growth at 4.9 CAGR

About Industrial Robotics
Industrial robotics can be defined as the use of robots in the manufacturing processes of industries such as food and beverage, electronics, and automotive. Industrial robots are programmed to control and automate manufacturing processes in industries. They are classified according to various technical parameters such as number of axes, degrees of freedom, working envelope, kinematics, payload, acceleration, accuracy, and repeatability. Industrial robots are used to automate various functions such as welding, painting, assembly, product inspection, testing, and packaging.

28 May 2015

Teledyne DALSA Unveils BOA™2 Vision System for Automation of Parts and Assembly Inspection

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision components and solutions, announced today its next generation BOA™2 Smart Camera featuring higher resolution imaging, dual-core processing and embedded iNspect™ Express application software. The BOA2 smart camera is a complete vision system with more pixels, power and integration flexibility for automating parts and assembly inspection.

28 May 2015

"Robot Market Research Reports and Industry Analysis" from Researchmoz.com

Researchmoz.com has announced the addition of the "Robot Market Research Reports and Industry Analysis" reports to their offering. This market research report on the global robots market provides a comprehensive overview of this market with special emphasis on the aspect of innovation that is a very important growth driver. Apart from relying on proprietary databases, the market forecasts mentioned in this report are also based on primary research.

28 May 2015

Innovative Robot Picks Up Flies and Keeps Them Alive

Since the early 20th century, an unheralded star of genetics research has been a small and essentially very annoying creature: the fruit fly.

27 May 2015

MIT Algorithm Significantly Reduces Planning Time of Robot Teams

Today’s industrial robots are remarkably efficient — as long as they’re in a controlled environment where everything is exactly where they expect it to be.

27 May 2015

Drones Fly Autonomously Without GPS Assistance

Drones say goodbye to pilots. With the goal of achieving autonomous flight of these aerial vehicles, the researcher José Martínez Carranza from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Mexico, developed a vision and learning system to control and navigate them without relying on a GPS signal or trained personnel.

27 May 2015