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Groupe Gorgé Wins €10 Million in Export Contracts for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

The Group announced that it recently won two export contracts valued at more than €10 million for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV).

20 Apr 2015

Raytheon Receives $2.0 Billion Patriot Air and Missile Defense System Contract from International Customer

Raytheon Company announced today it has been awarded a contract worth over $2.0 billion to deliver the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to an undisclosed international customer.

20 Apr 2015

SAS 2015: ONR Officials Announce New Era in Autonomy and Unmanned Systems for Naval Operations

A new era in autonomy and unmanned systems for naval operations is on the horizon, as officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced yesterday, April 14, during Sea-Air-Space 2015 exhibition, recent technology demonstrations of swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — part of the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) program.

20 Apr 2015

Minnesota Ambulatory Surgery Center Performs CT-Free Robotics-Assisted Partial Knee Replacement

Blue Belt Technologies, a medical device company specializing in solutions for orthopedic surgery, announces the first ambulatory surgery center in Minnesota to perform a CT-free robotics-assisted partial knee replacement. The case was performed by Dr. Eric Green at St. Cloud Surgical Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota, utilizing the Navio®Surgical System.

20 Apr 2015

Annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Takes Place in Huntsville, Alabama

Buckle up, because it’s back… two days of intense student racing kicks-off April 17-18 for the annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

20 Apr 2015

U-M Board of Regents Approves New Robotics Building Project

A $54-million robotics center at the University of Michigan will help advance the field as researchers say it's reaching a tipping point—poised to deliver autonomous technologies that are woven into our everyday lives.

20 Apr 2015

ACM Recognizes Pioneering Work in Humanitarian Disaster Response through Search and Rescue Robotics

Dr. Robin Roberson Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, is the recipient of the prestigious Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics.

20 Apr 2015

Universal Robots on Track to Meet Goal of Doubling Turnover Each Year

With yet another record setting result, Universal Robots is on track to meet the goal of doubling turnover each year in the period from 2014 to 2017.

20 Apr 2015

Vanderbilt Mini-V Team Captures Top Prize for AGSE Robot in Payload Design Category at NASA Competition

Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club, which has swept the annual event the last two years, put in a strong showing this year at the competition, which took place on April 11 at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. A total of 31 university teams participated.

20 Apr 2015

Rethink Robotics Closes Series D Financing

Rethink Robotics announced that the company's Series D financing is now closed with the addition of Wellington Management Company LLP joining GE Ventures and Goldman Sachs as significant new investors in the round.

20 Apr 2015

Global Automotive Human Machine Interface Market Forecast to Grow at 11.25% CAGR Over the Period 2014-2019

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Automotive Human Machine Interface (HMI) Market 2015-2019" report to their offering.

17 Apr 2015

Hawk Aerial and Unmanned Systems Granted FAA Exemptions to Conduct Commercial UAS Operations

Hawk Aerial, LLC and Unmanned Systems, Inc. have been granted exemptions from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct commercial operations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) on the basis of MULTIROTOR service-drone Eagle V2 and Skycrane, respectively.

17 Apr 2015

Expert to Lead Charter Day Panel on Robotics at Cornell University

Robotics expert Hadas Kress-Gazit, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will speak at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination. Her panel, “Robotics: Today's Intertwining of Engineering and Computer Science,” will be Sunday, April 26, 9-10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

17 Apr 2015

Sealed Air Acquires Intellibot Robotics

Sealed Air today announced the acquisition of Intellibot Robotics LLC, a U.S.-based privately owned company that has pioneered the development of robotic commercial floor cleaning machines.

17 Apr 2015

A Robot That Can Learn Moral Behavior

In research worthy of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot,” Bertram Malle is working to design a moral robot.

17 Apr 2015

Robotics News

Groupe Gorgé Wins €10 Million in Export Contracts for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Raytheon Receives $2.0 Billion Patriot Air and Missile Defense System Contract from International Customer

SAS 2015: ONR Officials Announce New Era in Autonomy and Unmanned Systems for Naval Operations

Minnesota Ambulatory Surgery Center Performs CT-Free Robotics-Assisted Partial Knee Replacement

Annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Takes Place in Huntsville, Alabama

U-M Board of Regents Approves New Robotics Building Project

ACM Recognizes Pioneering Work in Humanitarian Disaster Response through Search and Rescue Robotics

Universal Robots on Track to Meet Goal of Doubling Turnover Each Year

Vanderbilt Mini-V Team Captures Top Prize for AGSE Robot in Payload Design Category at NASA Competition

Rethink Robotics Closes Series D Financing

Global Automotive Human Machine Interface Market Forecast to Grow at 11.25% CAGR Over the Period 2014-2019

Hawk Aerial and Unmanned Systems Granted FAA Exemptions to Conduct Commercial UAS Operations

Expert to Lead Charter Day Panel on Robotics at Cornell University

Sealed Air Acquires Intellibot Robotics

A Robot That Can Learn Moral Behavior

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