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Command Security Purchases iRobot's Ava 500 Video Collaboration Robot

Command Security Corporation announced that it has signed a teaming agreement with iRobot and purchased iRobot's Ava 500 Video Collaboration Robot to explore next-generation staff augmentation through a trial program with Lincoln Property Company.

25 Oct 2014

Law School Forum Discusses Implications of Using Drones in the Middle East

On the day when Niagara Falls’ 107th Airlift Wing stopped flying cargo planes and transitioned to a mission of controlling military drones, a Law School forum wrestled with the implications of using these unmanned instruments of war in the Middle East.

25 Oct 2014

VA North Texas Health Care System to Receive Robotic Exoskeleton

SoldierSocks, a non-profit foundation focused on helping veterans, announced today that the VA North Texas Health Care System is the next recipient of an Ekso Bionics™ suit. The Ekso GT™ will help injured veterans walk again at the Dallas VA Medical Center, Spinal Cord Injury Center (SCI), which serves over 900 Veterans with spinal cord injury/disorder including 200 patients with multiple sclerosis in the southwest region.

25 Oct 2014

Pack Expo International: Teledyne DALSA to Showcase Smart Cameras and Multi-Camera Systems

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision technology, will feature the latest advancements for packaging and processing applications at Pack Expo International 2014, in South Hall Booth S-4147.

25 Oct 2014

Northrop Grumman Completes Precision Sloped Landing Tests with MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Aerial System

Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed precision sloped landing tests Aug. 27 with the MQ-8C Fire Scout at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, in preparation for at-sea testing.

25 Oct 2014

Wintergreen Research Releases New Report on Worldwide Robotics Markets

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Robots: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020" to their offering.

24 Oct 2014

Avnet Introduces Smart Vision Development Kit with Xilinx Zynq-7015 PicoZed SOM

Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc., is helping to eliminate time and cost barriers to develop industry-leading embedded machine vision applications with today’s release of the Smart Vision Development Kit featuring the Xilinx® Zynq®-7015 PicoZed System-on-Module (SOM).

24 Oct 2014

Investigators Study Influence of Environmental Factors on Infectious Diseases Using Drones

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can collect detailed information in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research. In a new Opinion piece published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Parasitology, experts demonstrate that drones can be used to understand how environmental factors influence the spread of infectious diseases.

24 Oct 2014

Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Satellite Tackles Threat of Space Debris

While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing satellites orbiting Earth, including NOAA-NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, or Suomi NPP, satellite. It is not unusual for satellites that have the capability of maneuvering to be repositioned to avoid debris or to maintain the proper orbit.

24 Oct 2014

pieDrive Interactive Operating Concept for Future Vehicles Advances Automated Driving

An increasing number of assistance systems are being designed to facilitate driving. Things are heading towards automated driving. What role does the person behind the steering wheel play? Scientists at TU Darmstadt have presented “pieDrive”, an interactive operating concept for vehicles of the future.

24 Oct 2014

NASA Global Hawk Mission Scores Bullseye in Gathering Information on Hurricane Edouard

NASA's Hurricane Severe Storms Sentinel or HS3 mission flew the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft on two missions between Sept. 11 and 15 into Hurricane Edouard and scored a bullseye by gathering information in the eye of the strengthening storm. Scientists saw how upper-level wind shear was affecting Edouard on the HS3's Global Hawk flight of the 2014 campaign over Sept. 11 and 12, and saw the hurricane strengthen during the sixth flight on Sept. 15 and 16.

24 Oct 2014

US Navy Places $7.6 Million Order with iRobot

iRobot Corp., the leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, has received a $7.6 million order from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division. The order calls for upgrades and spares for 46 Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) robots. MTRS is modeled after the company's multi-mission iRobot 510 PackBot. All deliveries under the order will be completed by Q2 2015.

From iRobot Corporation 21 Oct 2014

New Report Provides Detailed Analysis of Top 20 UAV / UAS Companies

Although increasingly competitive, the global UAV market is currently highly consolidated with a few leading companies dominating global sales. Primarily this is a result of US dominance of the market over the past decade.

21 Oct 2014

PrecisionHawk Becomes Member of Small UAV Coalition

PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, announced today they have joined the Small UAV Coalition to help pave the way for commercial, philanthropic, and civil use of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the United States and abroad. Chief among the organization's goals is to advance a regulatory environment that will support safe, reliable, and timely operation of small UAVs.

21 Oct 2014

Researchers Create Neural Network that Allows Robots to Detect Different Patterns

Through a computational algorithm, a team of researchers from the University of Guadalajara (UDG) in Mexico, developed a neural network that allows a small robot to detect different patterns, such as images, fingerprints, handwriting, faces, bodies, voice frequencies and DNA sequences.

21 Oct 2014

Robotics News

Command Security Purchases iRobot's Ava 500 Video Collaboration Robot

Law School Forum Discusses Implications of Using Drones in the Middle East

VA North Texas Health Care System to Receive Robotic Exoskeleton

Pack Expo International: Teledyne DALSA to Showcase Smart Cameras and Multi-Camera Systems

Northrop Grumman Completes Precision Sloped Landing Tests with MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Aerial System

Wintergreen Research Releases New Report on Worldwide Robotics Markets

Avnet Introduces Smart Vision Development Kit with Xilinx Zynq-7015 PicoZed SOM

Investigators Study Influence of Environmental Factors on Infectious Diseases Using Drones

Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Satellite Tackles Threat of Space Debris

pieDrive Interactive Operating Concept for Future Vehicles Advances Automated Driving

NASA Global Hawk Mission Scores Bullseye in Gathering Information on Hurricane Edouard

US Navy Places $7.6 Million Order with iRobot

New Report Provides Detailed Analysis of Top 20 UAV / UAS Companies

PrecisionHawk Becomes Member of Small UAV Coalition

Researchers Create Neural Network that Allows Robots to Detect Different Patterns

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