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Airspace Study to Expand Ohio’s Capabilities in Unmanned Aircraft Systems

A study set to be completed early next year will lead to developing a unique national capability in Ohio for flying unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to meet Air Force research needs and to boost Ohio's leadership in developing technologies to integrate unmanned systems. The study will leverage and expand the state's capabilities, particularly in improving the ability of unmanned systems to sense and avoid other aircraft in the same airspace.

9 Dec 2013

Penton's Aviation Week Reveals Classified Intelligence and Reconnaissance Stealth Unmanned Aircraft

In an exclusive cover story, Penton's Aviation Week, the largest multimedia information and services provider for the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries, reveals details about a highly classified intelligence and reconnaissance stealth unmanned aircraft, the RQ-180, that has been developed in secret. The aircraft is currently flying at Area 51 in the Nevada desert and will become operational by 2015.

9 Dec 2013

Zephyr Releases Remote Monitoring System for Transitional Care

Zephyr Technology is proud to announce the release of ZephyrLIFE™ – the world’s first remote monitoring system designed specifically for the growing market of transitional care. Transitional care involves managing the continuity of health care during the transition between health care practitioners and facilities as a patient’s condition and care needs change during the course of a chronic or acute illness, which ZephyrLIFE has been designed for.

9 Dec 2013

Energid to Provide Robotic Control and Simulation Software for DARPA's Phoenix Program

Energid Technologies Corporation has been awarded follow-on funding to provide software for robotic control and simulation to DARPA's Phoenix program. Phoenix seeks to leverage Energid's software to redefine how satellites can be built and maintained through assembly and repair in orbit.

From Energid Technologies Corporation 9 Dec 2013

Regulation and Insurance Will Pose a Challenge for Amazon Drones

For Amazon’s recently announced drone delivery system to get off the ground, the company will have to solve numerous difficult technological challenges. Chief among them will be increasing battery life, getting the drones to work without a central command and to “think” on their own, and determining what kind of navigation sensors they will use.

9 Dec 2013

Future Miniaturized Robots May Move Like Biological Unicellular Organisms

Forget cogwheels, pistons and levers: miniaturized robots of the future will be "soft".

9 Dec 2013

Hubbell Building Automation Introduces New CX Dimming Option Card

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today its latest energy-saving dimming controls solution - Hubbell Building Automation's new CX Dimming Option Card.

6 Dec 2013

New Report on Automated Test Equipment Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Opportunities & Forecast Market Report, 2018" report to their offering.

6 Dec 2013

ABB Commissions Microgrid Control Solution for Faial Island’s Wind Energy Generation

ABB, the leading global power and automation technology group and a key developer of power grid solutions, has delivered and commissioned a microgrid control solution that enables the island of Faial in the Atlantic ocean to add more wind energy to its power mix without destabilizing the network.

6 Dec 2013

Robotic Antenna Mimicks Cockroach's Hairs

Love them or hate them, cockroaches are notoriously good escape artists and can flee at astonishing speeds.

6 Dec 2013

NASA's Next Generation Smartphone Cubesat Spacecraft Completes Checkout

PhoneSat 2.4, NASA's next generation smartphone cubesat has phoned home. The tiny spacecraft that uses an off-the-shelf smartphone for a brain has completed checkout and sent back data confirming all systems are "go" for the spry spacefarer.

6 Dec 2013

Sophisticated ‘Electronic Skin’ Enables Continuous Monitoring of Patient’s Temperature

It is likely that at your next visit to the doctor, a medical practitioner will start by taking your temperature.

6 Dec 2013

Sophisticated ‘Electronic Skin’ Enables Continuous Monitoring of Patient’s Temperature

It is likely that at your next visit to the doctor, a medical practitioner will start by taking your temperature.

6 Dec 2013

Automation.com Features Seegrid and Linde Material Handling 2014 Automation Trends

The current issue of Automation.com featured manufacturing journalist, TR Cutler talked about the past-paced, ever-changing elements of automation impacting manufacturing, material handling, and logistics. Industrial Truck Association President, Jeff Rufener, predicted that by 2025 fully automated and guided vehicles will account for 50% of industrial truck sales.

From Seegrid Corporation 5 Dec 2013

Mayfield Announces Investment of $6 Million in 3D Robotics

Mayfield, a global, early-stage venture capital firm, today announced a $6 million investment in 3D Robotics (“3DR”), the leading open unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) platform company founded by Chris Anderson, former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine.

5 Dec 2013