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AHA's Guidelines Help Health Care System Reduce Use of Telemetry

A health care system reduced its use of telemetry (monitoring to detect irregular heartbeats) by 70 percent by integrating the American Heart Association's (AHA's) guidelines into its electronic ordering system.

23 Sep 2014

Control Design Readers Honor Red Lion for Panel Meters

Red Lion Controls, the global experts in communication, monitoring and control for industrial automation and networking, has once again been honored for its versatile, high-quality panel meters by Control Design Readers' Choice Awards 2014.

23 Sep 2014

Zephyr 7 All Electric UAV Powered by Sion Power Li-S Batteries

Sion Power announced today that their proprietary lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries played a critical role in the Airbus Defence and Space Zephyr 7 prototype High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) aircraft completing its most demanding mission to date: a southern hemisphere winter weather flight of over 11 days duration controlled by satellite communications.

23 Sep 2014

Forecast Report on Service Robotics Market by Application & by Geography

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Service Robotics Market (Professional and Personal), by Application (Defense, Agriculture, Medical, Domestic & Entertainment), & by Geography - Analysis Forecast (2014 - 2020)" report to their offering.

23 Sep 2014

RFID-Equipped Robot Successfully Finds Objects

Mobile robots could be much more useful in homes, if they could locate people, places and objects. Today’s robots usually see the world with cameras and lasers, which have difficulty reliably recognizing things and can miss objects that are hidden in clutter.

23 Sep 2014

Underwater Robots to Work in Groups

It is where we all came from and it is vital to our future, but the earth’s oceans, seas and waterways remain a mystery to us – a final frontier. The Sunrise project is at the forefront of a revolution in communications, creating an underwater ‘internet of things’, that will mobilise robots to work in groups, interacting together and passing back information to us on life underwater.

22 Sep 2014

Researchers Unveil Soft Robotics ‘Toolkit’

A new resource unveiled today by researchers from several Harvard University labs in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin provides both experienced and aspiring researchers with the intellectual raw materials needed to design, build, and operate robots made from soft, flexible materials.

22 Sep 2014

Autonomous Micro-Robot Swarm Replicates Behaviour of Honeybees

Computer scientists have created a low-cost, autonomous micro-robot which in large numbers can replicate the behaviour of swarming honeybees

22 Sep 2014

ING Robotic Aviation to Demonstrate New Method for Assessing Crop Vegetation

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has selected ING Robotic Aviation, a high tech robotic aircraft company, to demonstrate a new method for assessing crop vegetation. They will be using an aerial multi-spectral camera to provide detailed, real-time information on crop health. To the uninitiated the result looks like an Andy Warhol picture, while to an agronomist the image is full of data.

22 Sep 2014

Lincoln Electric Granted Worldwide License for Helical Robotics' Magnetic Robotic Technology

The Lincoln Electric Company, a subsidiary of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., and Helical Robotics®, LLC announced today that Lincoln Electric has been granted an exclusive worldwide license for Helical Robotics' proprietary magnetic robotic technology. This agreement will expand Lincoln Electric's automation solutions to include the industry's first trackless automated arc welding and cutting solution.

22 Sep 2014

Ekso GT Robotic Exoskeleton Safe for Gait Training in Stroke Patients

Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc., a robotic exoskeleton company, today announced new findings from a feasibility study conducted by Kessler Foundation, which reported that eight stroke patients who were prescribed gait training during inpatient rehabilitation training, safely increased their cadence (steps per minute) after six weeks of rehabilitation with the assistance of the Ekso™ GT robotic exoskeleton.

From Ekso Bionics 22 Sep 2014

PURE Facial Plastic Surgery Brings ARTAS Robotic System for Hair Transplantation to the Carolinas

PURE Facial Plastic Surgery proudly announces the launch of the FDA-cleared ARTAS® Robotic System at its Huntersville, N.C. location.

22 Sep 2014

3D Systems Highlights Simbionix Cross-Specialty Robotic Surgery Training System at ERUS Exhibition

3D Systems announced today the addition of the Simbionix RobotiX Mentor™, a new robotic surgery skills and procedural training simulator, which is being shown for the first time at the ERUS exhibition in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from September 17 to 19 (booth #7).

22 Sep 2014

National Championships for World Robot Olympiad to be Hosted by Lawrence Tech

The United States is joining an international student competition for robot design for the first time this year, and on Saturday, Sept. 27, Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield, Michigan, will host the first-ever national championships to determine who will represent their country at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO).

19 Sep 2014

PrecisionHawk Closes $10 Million Series B Financing Round

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, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round of approximately $10 million led by New York City-based investor Millennium Technology Value Partners.

19 Sep 2014