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Robots to Help Farmers

With a growing produce demand and a shortage of farm workers, agricultural areas like Salinas Valley, California are tuning to technology investment programs like Thrive Accelerator to improve farming practices. These farming innovations are featured in this week's The Lempert Report Innovation Series.

27 Feb 2015

Mouser, Grant Imahara Invite Engineers to Participate in Robotics Empowering Innovation Challenge

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the global authorized distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is partnering with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara to call on engineers of all levels to join them on a journey to Empower Innovation Together™. Engineers worldwide can engage with Grant Imahara through a variety of topics and series of challenges that question and defy innovation in the pursuit of new ideas.

26 Feb 2015

Bimba’s Innovative Pneumatics Product, IntelliSense, Honored with Coveted Awards

Bimba Manufacturing, an industry leading innovator of actuation technology, today announced that IntelliSense®, a one-of-its-kind technology platform that enables users to be proactive about maintenance and system optimization, has been named Plant Engineering Magazine’s Product of the Year for 2014, and winner of the Golden Mousetrap Award 2015 from Design News Magazine. In addition, IntelliSense® was named winner of Design World Magazine’s Leadership in Engineering 2014 Award.

26 Feb 2015

Global UAV Market Forecast to Grow at 5.66% CAGR During 2015-2025

The Global UAV Market 2015-2025 is a 218 pages research report available with ReportsnReports.com that provides readers with a detailed UAV market analysis of both historic and forecast global industry values, factors influencing demand, the challenges faced by industry participants, analysis of industry leading companies, and key news.

26 Feb 2015

Insitu Announces Successful Demonstration of Integrator Unmanned Aircraft System at IDEX 2015

Insitu announced today the successful demonstration of its Integrator unmanned aircraft system during the live flight event at IDEX in Abu Dhabi. The two-day live fly took place on 24 and 25 February at the Al Tareef Airstrip, and was held in conjunction with the Unmanned Systems Exhibition and Conference (UMEX).

26 Feb 2015

Germ-Zapping Robots Producer, Xenex, Becomes Member of NPSF Patient Safety Coalition

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), a central voice for patient safety since 1997, recently welcomed Xenex Disinfection Services as a member of the NPSF Patient Safety Coalition.

26 Feb 2015

Comprehensive Research Report on Global Electric UAV Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Electric Drones: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 2015-2025 " report to their offering.

26 Feb 2015

Testing Underway on New Portable System for Real-Time Monitoring of Parkinson's Disease Patients

The evolution of the disease is monitored in real time and sent to the doctor to improve the prescription of medication.

26 Feb 2015

Corindus Vascular Robotics Initiates Clinical Trial of CorPath System in Peripheral Vascular Interventions

Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc., a leading developer of precision vascular robotics, announced today that it has initiated a clinical trial of its CorPath System in peripheral vascular interventions.

26 Feb 2015

Intelitek and Robai Launch New Line of Humanoid Robots for Education

Robai and Intelitek have launched a new line of humanoid robots—the CytonE family—for education. The size of a human arm and weighing under five pounds, each CytonE arm has seven independent axes of motion plus a gripper.

25 Feb 2015

API Technologies Awarded US Patent for EOD Robot Aiming Device

API Technologies Corp., a leading provider of high performance RF, microwave, millimeterwave, power, and security solutions, has been awarded a new patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,960,542) for its aiming device for a bomb disarming disrupter.

25 Feb 2015

Bionic Reconstruction Enables Three Austrian Men to Use Robotic Hand Controlled by Their Mind

Three Austrian men have become the first in the world to undergo a new technique called "bionic reconstruction", enabling them to use a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by their mind, according to new research published in The Lancet. All three men suffered for many years with brachial plexus injuries and poor hand function as a result of motor vehicle and climbing accidents.

25 Feb 2015

Mitsubishi Electric to Launch New Digital Video Surveillance System

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today it will unveil in June a new digital video surveillance system offering high performance, versatility and scalability for diverse security applications. The system records at 30 frames per second in Full HD (2.0M pixels) resolution from 16 cameras used in parallel, with compensation provided by Mitsubishi Electric’s own super-resolution technology, including for electronic zoom.

25 Feb 2015

Kansas State University Salina Reaches National Milestone in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Industry

Kansas State University Salina has reached a national milestone in the unmanned aircraft systems industry, becoming the first entity in the country to receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, for statewide access during flight operations.

25 Feb 2015

EPSRC Funding to Three Projects Focusing on Robotic Trousers, Prosthetic Hands, and Biosensors

A prosthetic hand controlled by the nervous system, robotic clothing to help people with walking, and biosensors to monitor how patients use equipment or exercise during rehabilitation are the focus of three research projects awarded £5.3 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

25 Feb 2015

Robotics News

Robots to Help Farmers

Mouser, Grant Imahara Invite Engineers to Participate in Robotics Empowering Innovation Challenge

Bimba’s Innovative Pneumatics Product, IntelliSense, Honored with Coveted Awards

Global UAV Market Forecast to Grow at 5.66% CAGR During 2015-2025

Insitu Announces Successful Demonstration of Integrator Unmanned Aircraft System at IDEX 2015

Germ-Zapping Robots Producer, Xenex, Becomes Member of NPSF Patient Safety Coalition

Comprehensive Research Report on Global Electric UAV Market

Testing Underway on New Portable System for Real-Time Monitoring of Parkinson's Disease Patients

Corindus Vascular Robotics Initiates Clinical Trial of CorPath System in Peripheral Vascular Interventions

Intelitek and Robai Launch New Line of Humanoid Robots for Education

API Technologies Awarded US Patent for EOD Robot Aiming Device

Bionic Reconstruction Enables Three Austrian Men to Use Robotic Hand Controlled by Their Mind

Mitsubishi Electric to Launch New Digital Video Surveillance System

Kansas State University Salina Reaches National Milestone in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Industry

EPSRC Funding to Three Projects Focusing on Robotic Trousers, Prosthetic Hands, and Biosensors

News Categories

MicroAdapt Technology Enables Real-Time Learning and Forecasting in Compact Edge Devices

NEURA Robotics, Wandercraft Among Winners of the Humanoid Robotics Industry Awards 2025

AI-Powered Smartwatch ECG Accurately Screens for Structural Heart Disease

Hyperion Surgical Announces Completion of First-in-Human Study Using Its Ivy™ Robotic Vascular Access Platform, Achieving World’s First Robotic-Assisted IV Catheterization

New Control System Lets Drone Teams Fly Heavy Loads With Speed and Precision

How Has Robotic Dexterity Changed with AI?

Who’s Leading the Global Agricultural Robotics Race?

5 Key Challenges Limiting Robotic Dexterity

Thought Leaders

Robot Chef: The Future of Automated Meal Preparation

Tiny Robotic Crab: The Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot

Resurrecting Ancient Cephalopods with Robots