RoboBusiness (Oct. 15-17, Hynes Convention Center, Boston), the leading business development event for the global robotics market, is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2014 Game Changer Awards, honoring the robotics industry's remarkable technical accomplishments and their makers.
Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc., a robotic exoskeleton company, announced today that the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago has ordered three Ekso GT™ robotic exoskeletons for use in general neuro-rehabilitation of patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and incomplete spinal cord injury.
Data Mapper, an enterprise aerial data software, today announced it will expand its cloud-based platform to ingest data collected by a wider network of UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] providers. The application provides the ability to upload, store, process and share aerial imagery and is equipped for detailed, automated analysis.
For those most severely affected, treating epilepsy means drilling through the skull deep into the brain to destroy the small area where the seizures originate – invasive, dangerous and with a long recovery period.
By Heidi Hall and David Salisbury
16 Oct 2014
SandlerResearch.org adds 2 new service robots market research reports titled Global Service Robot Market 2014-2018 and The Rise of Machines: Technology & Market Trends of Service Robots to its store. Spread across 127 and 30 pages respectively, these research reports on service robot industry provide forecasts up to 2018 as well as analysis of technology and market trends. Priced at $3000 (single user PDF) and $1600, these reports can be purchased individually or in a bundle for a discount.
Rather than taking jobs, robots will one day soon join people on the factory floor, as co-workers and collaborators. That’s the vision of a EUR 6.5 million project led by Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Industrial Robotics Market by Type, Component, Function, Industry, & Geography - Analysis & Forecast to 2014 - 2020" report to their offering.
From performing surgery and flying planes to babysitting kids and driving cars, today’s robots can do it all. With chatbots such as Eugene Goostman recently being hailed as “passing” the Turing test, it appears robots are becoming increasingly adept at posing as humans. While machines are becoming ever more integrated into human lives, the need to imbue them with a sense of morality becomes increasingly urgent. But can we really teach robots how to be good?
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Industrial Logistics Robots Market " to their offering.
The ping-pong robot developed by OMRON Corporation received the Grand Prix in the Innovation Awards as Selected by U.S. Journalists at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC JAPAN 2014), the biggest exhibit of the latest lT and electronic technologies in all of Asia.
This report identifies and segments the main types of medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery (MRCAS) devices that have been commercialized to date. It analyzes the historical and current volume and value of shipments of each of these product segments in specified applications and geographical markets. It also evaluates the impact of demographic, economic and other factors that will drive future demand for MRCAS devices and includes forecasts through 2019.
SHIELD Aviation, Inc. announced today the granting of a Category 3 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Interim Flight Clearance (IFC) for the ARES Block C UAS by Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR) Patuxent River MD AIR – 4.0P. The ARES UAS IFC supports Navy public aircraft operations of ARES Block C UAS within restricted and warning areas of the U.S. National airspace.
Iowa State University faculty members are developing a new facility that will utilize a specially designed robot to gather unprecedented amounts of data on the growth of plants under different environmental conditions.
Although already popular, more remote operating vehicles (ROVs) and drones will be utilized in the future. Considered unmanned aerial vehicles, drones fly while ROVs are used underwater. As ROVs take to the seas, drones can fly into potentially dangerous places.
With growing demands for actionable information and knowledge for the warfighter, there is a critical need for solutions that enable true terrain dominance and intelligence based warfare. Elbit Systems of America understands this need and is providing integrated and networked solutions by leveraging its technical expertise and in-theater experience, as well as that of its parent company.