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New Report on Residential Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Market in Germany

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Residential Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Market in Germany 2014-2018" report to their offering.

21 Aug 2014

Moth Biobots for Emergency Response

North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles. The work opens the door to the development of remotely-controlled moths, or “biobots,” for use in emergency response.

21 Aug 2014

Global SCARA Robot Market Forecast to Grow at 4.38% CAGR

TechNavio, a global tech-focused research firm has announced the publication of its Global SCARA Robot Market report, ahead of ASME’s Advanced Design & Manufacturing Impact Forum from August 17th–20th, in Buffalo, New York.

21 Aug 2014

Leading Automotive Electronics Supplier Acquires Two of Evana Automation’s Multi-Station Lean Manufacturing Systems

Evana Automation Specialists, a leading Systems Integrator and builder of custom, automated assembly and test systems, recently shipped two multi-station lean manufacturing systems to a leading Tier 1 automotive supplier of electronic components that will assemble and test next-generation lane departure warning systems (LDWS).

21 Aug 2014

Worm Movement Study May Help Improve Robotics

An engineer at the University of Liverpool has found how worms move around, despite not having a brain to communicate with the body.

20 Aug 2014

New 175-Space Automated Robotic Parking System at Costa Hollywood Condominium Resort

Boomerang Systems, Inc., the innovative U.S. designer and manufacturer of fully-automated robotic parking systems, announced today that construction has commenced inside the structure that will house an automated robotic parking system that the company has been contracted to install at the new 304-unit Costa Hollywood Condominium Resort on the Atlantic Ocean in Hollywood Beach, Florida.

20 Aug 2014

Students Design and Build Small UAV Within 10 Weeks

Standing at the edge of an isolated field, Peter Blake dropped a few bits of dried grass to check the wind before giving the signal to launch the small, computer-controlled aircraft that he and seven other students built for a course at Stanford School of Engineering.

20 Aug 2014

Forecast Report on Worldwide Robots Market

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.

20 Aug 2014

Manned and Unmanned Carrier Aircraft Operate Together

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy offered a glimpse of the future of carrier aviation on Aug. 17 by conducting a series of cooperative flights from the aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), using an X-47B Unmanned Air System (UCAS) and an F/A-18 Hornet.

20 Aug 2014

UD Celebrates Opening of New Robotic Discovery Laboratories

Joanne Currier Daiber gave up a career in marine science for love, but she never gave up her love of marine science.

20 Aug 2014

Cognex Marks Milestone of One Millionth Vision System Shipment

Cognex Corporation today announced that the company has shipped its one-millionth vision system. The Cognex In-Sight® vision system was purchased by Medtronic, the world’s largest medical technology company.

19 Aug 2014

Lockheed Martin Receives Contract to Evaluate and Test Two FORTIS Exoskeletons

Lockheed Martin has received a contract through the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) for the U.S. Navy to evaluate and test two FORTIS exoskeletons. This marks the first procurement of Lockheed Martin's exoskeletons for industrial use. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 19 Aug 2014

First Fully Autonomous Mission Successfully Conducted by Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), successfully conducted a fully autonomous resupply, reconnaissance, surveillance and target-acquisition demonstration using its Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicle, K-MAX unmanned helicopter and Gyrocam optical sensor.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 19 Aug 2014

New Mechatronics Lab Established at RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems and New York Air Brake, working in conjunction with Rochester Institute of Technology, have created the Knorr-Bremse North America Mechatronics Laboratory at RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

19 Aug 2014

Innovate Precision Farming Using Drones

Since 2010, the company Quetzal Aerospace, based in the city of Queretaro, in the middle of Mexico, began manufacturing drones. A little more than four years after its birth, the company has expressed its intention to use these platforms to optimize aeronautical techniques for farmers, in order to promote "precision agriculture" in the country.

19 Aug 2014