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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

Two Hospitals in Liberia Deploy Germ-Killing Robots to Deal Ebola Virus

Two 5-foot-5 superbug-slaying machines were deployed from the United States yesterday en route to JFK Hospital and ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, where they will aid in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus outbreak.

19 Aug 2014

Gamma 2 Robotics Enters Robot Assembly Agreement with Vergent Products

Gamma 2 Robotics ("G2R"), developers of the world's first commercially available security robot, announced today that it has signed a robot assembly agreement with Vergent Products (www.vergentproducts.com), thus completing G2R's supply chain and enabling maximum scalability over time.

18 Aug 2014

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Selects ‘Bonanza King’ as Fourth Drilling Target

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation.

18 Aug 2014

New Set of Rules for 21st Century Care Robots

Isaac Asimov famously devised three laws of robotics that underpinned a number of his science fiction books and short stories, Professor Tom Sorell of the University of Warwick has helped develop a new set of rules that they believe will be needed for 21st century care robots.

18 Aug 2014

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.

18 Aug 2014

Swisslog Debuts Continuous Remote Monitoring and Technical Support for Hospital Material Transport Industry

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, the market-leader for hospital pneumatic tube systems, announces the opening of its Network Operations Center (NOC) for TransLogic® Pneumatic Tube Systems (PTS). The NOC is part of the advanced customer service capability available only from Swisslog and features real-time technical support 24/7/365 to ensure maximum system uptime.

18 Aug 2014