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Triton High-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Built by Northrop Grumman Completes First Flight

The Northrop Grumman Corporation-built MQ-4C Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight today from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale.

23 May 2013

Fire Ant Inspires Subterranean Search and Rescue Robots

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

23 May 2013

Robotics Competition for Computer Scientists at iAAMCS Event

Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for increasing African-American participation in computing.

22 May 2013

Accuray Reports Study Results of Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

Accuray Incorporated, announced today the publication of study results involving hundreds of prostate cancer patients treated with the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System, the most widely used form of prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).

From Accuray Incorporated 22 May 2013

Israel Becomes Top Global Exporter of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Israeli original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have aggressively marketed these platforms, helping them become the top exporter of UAS platforms, globally.

22 May 2013

Robotics Company, GeckoSystems, Forecasts Profitable 4th Quarter

GeckoSystems Intlernational Corporation is pleased to announce that due to the licensing agreement recently reached, the company forecasts a net profit for the 4th quarter of their fiscal year ending June 30. For over fifteen years GeckoSystems has dedicated itself to development of "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™"

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 22 May 2013

SBA Honors Aurora for SPHERES Program Utilized in Zero Robotics Competition

Aurora Flight Sciences was honored by the Small Business Administration with its Tibbetts Award which recognizes technological innovation made possible through the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

22 May 2013

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Receives Second Gift from Founding Donor

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that Hansjörg Wyss (Harvard MBA, '65), the entrepreneur and philanthropist who enabled the Institute's creation in 2009 with a $125 million gift, has donated a second $125 million gift to the University to further advance the Institute's pioneering work.

22 May 2013

KIT Researchers and Disney Research Demonstrate Natural Human-to-Robot Handoff Motion

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

21 May 2013

Study Results Help Develop Robots Capable of Working in Confined Spaces

21 May 2013

Bipedal Robotics Researcher Supports Multi-University Effort to Advance Cyber-Physical Systems

Dr. Aaron Ames, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is part of multi-university team that has received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research into cyber-physical systems (CPS).

18 May 2013

Canadian Government Supports Development of Unmanned Aerial System Center of Excellence at Alma Airport

The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, today announced that Aéroport d'Alma has been granted financial assistance to build the infrastructure needed to group all of the activities of the Unmanned Aerial System Center of Excellence under one roof.

18 May 2013

Industry Leaders to Present Keynotes at Design Automation Conference 2013

Industry luminaries from Freescale, National Instrument, Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and UC Berkeley will all present keynotes at the 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference devoted to electronic design, design automation, embedded systems and software. The 50th DAC will be held at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas from June 2-6, 2013.

18 May 2013

Wave Glider Unmanned Autonomous Surface Vehicle Wins Guinness World Record

Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, announced it has been officially awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest journey of an unmanned autonomous surface vehicle.

From Liquid Robotics 17 May 2013

Opportunity to Interact with Robots at NYU-Poly Research Expo

As a newly minted class of engineers walk the stage at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University Commencement next week, New Yorkers will have an opportunity to walk into the future, as Downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Plaza transforms for the university's first annual Research Expo.

17 May 2013