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St. Cloud Surgical Center Enhances Patient Safety with Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot

Xenex Disinfection Services today announced that St. Cloud Surgical Center is the first ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in the U.S. and the first healthcare facility in St. Cloud to utilize a Xenex germ-zapping robot to enhance patient safety by destroying the deadly pathogens that can cause healthcare associated infections (HAI). St. Cloud Surgical Center is using Xenex’s full-spectrum UV disinfection system to disinfect its surgical suites daily.

30 Dec 2014

Expansion within Telehealth Market to Boost U.S. Patient Monitoring Market

According to a report by iData Research, the leading global authority in medical device market research, the U.S. patient monitoring market is projected to grow to over $5 billion by 2020, due to the most notable expansion within the telehealth market.

30 Dec 2014

Increase in Drone Sales May Create a Mass Safety Risk

With thousands of drones given as holiday gifts this year, thousands more untested operators are about to launch their gifts into the sky, creating a mass safety risk of unknown proportions, according to Darrell Slaughter, Director of Business Development at Phoenix, Arizona-based Unmanned Vehicle University (UVU).

30 Dec 2014

Kettering University Offers LEGO NXT Class Through Oxford Virtual Academy

Homeschool families interested in supplementing their in-home educational offerings can now do so with courses through Oxford Virtual Academy (OVA) at Kettering University.

29 Dec 2014

FAA Certification Enables Sensurion's MAGPIE MP-1 UAS to Fly in Nevada Test Range

Sensurion Aerospace became the first manufacturer to receive a Special Airworthiness Certificate (SAC) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under its new procedures, which designate authority to the Test Range for SAC review and guidance.

26 Dec 2014

Luxoft to Showcase its Technologies at Consumer Telematics and Consumer Electronic Shows

Luxoft Holding, Inc, a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base, today announced participation in Consumer Telematics Show 2015 in The Rio Hotel & Casino on January 5, 2015 and in GENIVI CES 2015 Demonstration Showcase in The Trump Hotel on January 6 – 7, 2015, both of which to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

26 Dec 2014

Yuneec’s Q500 Typhoon Aerial Photography and Videography Drone Now Available for Consumer Purchase

Yuneec International, the world leader in remote controlled flying devices, announced today that the Q500 Typhoon, a complete aerial photography and videography (APV) drone that combines simplicity of operation with exceptional video quality, is now available for consumer purchase worldwide.

24 Dec 2014

Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C Fire Scout System Successfully Flies Off Guided-Missile Destroyer

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) successfully flew the MQ-8C Fire Scout system for the first time off the guided-missile destroyer, USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), Dec. 16, off the Virginia coast.

24 Dec 2014

Robotic Sea Turtle Could Dive to Deeper Depths Vertically

NUS Engineering researchers are closer to creating underwater robotic creatures with a brain of their own – besides behaving like the real thing. In the near future, it would not be too tall an order for the team to produce a swarm of autonomous tiny robotic sea turtles and fishes for example, to perform hazardous missions such as detecting nuclear wastes underwater or other tasks too dangerous for humans.

24 Dec 2014

CEA Selects KODAK Baby Monitoring System as 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honoree

Seedonk, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based vision-as-a-service for video care monitoring, today announced that the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has selected its KODAK Baby Monitoring System as a 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honoree. The annual competition honors outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.

23 Dec 2014

Buffalo Computer Graphics to Offer Tacbot Robots with Cameras and HAZMAT Sensors through Lithos

Buffalo Computer Graphics, Inc. (BCG) has partnered with Lithos Robotics Corporation to offer customers new video and audio options with camera systems and robots that can be placed directly at disaster sites and viewed in the DisasterLAN (DLAN) Streaming Video Module.

23 Dec 2014

Kratos Subsidiary Awarded Contract for AFSAT Target Drones and Technical Support

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its subsidiary, Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI), has received a $72.3 million award, including options, from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Armament Directorate, Test and Training Division, Aerial Targets Branch for delivery of three Lots of AFSAT target drones and technical support.

23 Dec 2014

TransEnterix Announces Successful Completion of Pre-Clinical Robotic Surgical Procedures

TransEnterix, Inc., a medical device company that is pioneering the use of robotics and flexible instruments to improve minimally invasive surgery, today announced the successful completion of four general surgery and urology procedures using its SurgiBot system patient-side robotic surgery system. Management also stated that the preparation of its FDA 510(k) filing is proceeding as planned, and affirmed prior guidance of its intention to submit the filing in mid-2015.

22 Dec 2014

Forecast and Analysis Report on Global Market for Autopilot Systems

According to a new market research report "Autopilot System Market by Product, by Application, by Component, by Geography - Forecasts & Analysis to 2014 - 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, the global autopilot systems market is estimated to be $2.86 Billion in 2014 and expected to register a CAGR of 6.20% to reach $4.1 Billion by 2020.

22 Dec 2014

New Robotic Technology Gives Ball State Students Benefit of Working with Professionals

What was once the stuff of science fiction is now an educational tool students in Ball State University’s architecture, planning and landscape architecture programs are incorporating into daily life.

22 Dec 2014

Robotics News

St. Cloud Surgical Center Enhances Patient Safety with Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot

Expansion within Telehealth Market to Boost U.S. Patient Monitoring Market

Increase in Drone Sales May Create a Mass Safety Risk

Kettering University Offers LEGO NXT Class Through Oxford Virtual Academy

FAA Certification Enables Sensurion's MAGPIE MP-1 UAS to Fly in Nevada Test Range

Luxoft to Showcase its Technologies at Consumer Telematics and Consumer Electronic Shows

Yuneec’s Q500 Typhoon Aerial Photography and Videography Drone Now Available for Consumer Purchase

Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C Fire Scout System Successfully Flies Off Guided-Missile Destroyer

Robotic Sea Turtle Could Dive to Deeper Depths Vertically

CEA Selects KODAK Baby Monitoring System as 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honoree

Buffalo Computer Graphics to Offer Tacbot Robots with Cameras and HAZMAT Sensors through Lithos

Kratos Subsidiary Awarded Contract for AFSAT Target Drones and Technical Support

TransEnterix Announces Successful Completion of Pre-Clinical Robotic Surgical Procedures

Forecast and Analysis Report on Global Market for Autopilot Systems

New Robotic Technology Gives Ball State Students Benefit of Working with Professionals

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