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NASA Selects Proposals to Address Challenges in Robotic Mobility in Space Missions

NASA has selected seven university-led proposals for the study of innovative, early stage technologies that address high priority needs for America's space program.

16 Jul 2014

Novel Collaborative Alliance to Establish Automation and Digitalization Research Project

Partners from industry and science are joining forces in a novel collaborative research alliance to address the future-oriented fields of automation and digitalization. Siemens is the first company to forge a research alliance with universities and research institutes that will utilize a new, fully integrated approach in order to bundle outstanding expertise and make possible wide-ranging innovations in processes and systems.

From Siemens AG 16 Jul 2014

Lockheed Martin to Provide Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Maintenance & Surveillance Services

Lockheed Martin received a contract award recently totaling $212 million from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Maintenance & Surveillance services to U.S. and international PAC-3 customers from the Missile Support Center.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 16 Jul 2014

Raytheon, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force Begin Small Diameter Bomb II Integration Activities on Aircraft

Raytheon Company, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force have begun Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) integration activities on the F-35, F/A-18E/F, and F-16 aircrafts.

15 Jul 2014

Kratos Receives $4.2 Million Contract Award to Supply Unmanned Aerial Drone System Aircraft

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Advanced Drones & Target Systems Division (KADTS) recently received a new $4.2 million contract award to provide unmanned aerial drone system aircraft and related spares to a National Security customer.

15 Jul 2014

Raytheon Completes Guided Flight Test of Seagriffin Missile with Dual-Mode Seeker

Raytheon Company successfully completed the latest guided flight test of its SeaGriffin™ missile.

15 Jul 2014

Robots Solve Complex Problems Faster

Jeff Clune and his students are not only getting robots to think, but to think creatively.

15 Jul 2014

Raytheon Standard Missile-6 Destroys Supersonic High Altitude Target Drone

The USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) used a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-6 to destroy a supersonic high altitude target drone (AQM-37). The test moves the program one step closer to full operational capability.

15 Jul 2014

Deformable Surgical Robots Could Move Through the Body

In the movie “Terminator 2,” the shape-shifting T-1000 robot morphs into a liquid state to squeeze through tight spaces or to repair itself when harmed.

15 Jul 2014

NASA Grant to Help Develop Advanced Remote-Sensing Techniques for Better Prediction of Snowmelt

It contributes to the rise and fall of dynasties and shapes both the landscape and the cycle of ordinary life. Too much can be ruinous and too little is always devastating. It’s water, the element that Leonardo da Vinci called “the driving force of all nature.”

14 Jul 2014

Analysis & Forecast Report on Global Electronic Toll Collection System Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Electronic Toll Collection System Market by Products, Technology, Applications, & Geography - Analysis & Forecast to 2013 - 2020" report to their offering.

14 Jul 2014

Drone Locates Victims in Natural Disasters Through Their Phones

SUMMER SERIES (2): During his semester project in Computer Science, Jonathan Cheseaux developed a system for locating a person via his or her mobile phone with a drone. This device could be used to find victims in natural disasters.

14 Jul 2014

Squadrons of Small Autonomous Robots Provide Appropriate Light for Photography

Lighting is crucial to the art of photography. But lights are cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, and outside the studio, it can be prohibitively difficult to position them where, ideally, they ought to go.

14 Jul 2014

SDG&E Granted FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate for Small UAS

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently granted San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) a Special Airworthiness Certificate for a small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), allowing the utility to research, test and train flight crews on the UAS in a sparsely populated airspace in Eastern San Diego County. SDG&E is the first utility in the nation to be granted FAA approval for this technology.

14 Jul 2014

Humanoid Robot Paired with a Tablet Taught to Play Angry Birds

With the help of a smart tablet and Angry Birds, children can now do something typically reserved for engineers and computer scientists: program a robot to learn new skills. The Georgia Institute of Technology project is designed to serve as a rehabilitation tool and to help kids with disabilities.

14 Jul 2014

Robotics News

NASA Selects Proposals to Address Challenges in Robotic Mobility in Space Missions

Novel Collaborative Alliance to Establish Automation and Digitalization Research Project

Lockheed Martin to Provide Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Maintenance & Surveillance Services

Raytheon, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force Begin Small Diameter Bomb II Integration Activities on Aircraft

Kratos Receives $4.2 Million Contract Award to Supply Unmanned Aerial Drone System Aircraft

Raytheon Completes Guided Flight Test of Seagriffin Missile with Dual-Mode Seeker

Robots Solve Complex Problems Faster

Raytheon Standard Missile-6 Destroys Supersonic High Altitude Target Drone

Deformable Surgical Robots Could Move Through the Body

NASA Grant to Help Develop Advanced Remote-Sensing Techniques for Better Prediction of Snowmelt

Analysis & Forecast Report on Global Electronic Toll Collection System Market

Drone Locates Victims in Natural Disasters Through Their Phones

Squadrons of Small Autonomous Robots Provide Appropriate Light for Photography

SDG&E Granted FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate for Small UAS

Humanoid Robot Paired with a Tablet Taught to Play Angry Birds

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