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UC Berkeley Researchers Develop Artificial Skin Using Nanotechnology

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created an artificial skin with a nanowire active matrix circuitry casing the hand.

16 Sep 2010

Hitachi Plant Technologies to Deliver Automatic Guided Vehicle

Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd has obtained a procurement order from a reputed glass manufacturing industry for Autonomous Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV).

16 Sep 2010

Sysmex Offers Automated Hematology Solutions for LabCorp

Sysmex America Inc, a global provider of automated solutions for clinical laboratories, has declared its five year contract with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) for delivering hematology automation systems for the leading testing labs of LabCorp.

15 Sep 2010

Unmanned Vehicle for Phobos Mission to be Assessed by Russia

Russian scientists are due to carry out tests of an unmanned lander which will be employed in their 2011 mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.

15 Sep 2010

Georgia Tech Researchers Develop Deceptive Robots

Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing’s Regents Professor Ronald Arkin and its Research Engineer Alan Wagner conducted experiments at the Georgia Institute of Technology to investigate the method of robot deception.

15 Sep 2010

BIOTRONIK Offers Automated Monitoring of ICD System

BIOTRONIK, a leading provider of implantable cardiac devices (ICD) and other sophisticated remote monitoring solutions, has declared that the outcome of the TRUST Trial (Lumax-T/Lumos-T Safely Reduces Routine Office Device Follow-up) have been made available online.

14 Sep 2010

MIT Develops Seaswarm Robot for Oil Skimming

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an archetypal model of a robot called Seaswarm that can automatically move across the ocean to absorb the oil spill and process it locally.

14 Sep 2010

Parata Systems Receives 2010 Business Excellence Award

Parata Systems, a global leader in providing innovative pharmacy automation solutions, has received the 2010 Business Excellence Award, in the category of "Large Business", from the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce.

14 Sep 2010

VA Medical Center to Feature Automated Biomass Steam-Generation System

with the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centre in Canandaigua, New York, to deliver an automated biomass steam production system that utilizes biological materials like wood and bark-chips retrieved from various logging activities for producing untainted energy and heat.

14 Sep 2010

iRobot to Support STEM Education Using Robotics

iRobot Corp., a global leader in providing robotic solutions, has declared the release of a new program called “20 in 20” by the end of this year for commemorating the company’s 20 years of service in the robotics industry.

From iRobot Corporation 14 Sep 2010

US Navy’s TRA Panel Evaluates Raytheon’s TSCE Automation System

Raytheon Company, a global provider of the state-of-the-art electronics and a wide range of mission support services, has recently launched a Total Ship Computing Environment (TSCE), with an open structural design for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer.

14 Sep 2010

Robotic Surgery Specialist Clarifies about Prostate Cancer

Dr. David B. Samadi, Chief, Division of Robotics and Minimal Invasive Surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has reported that the most frequently identified cancer is Prostate cancer and at present it is the second major reason of cancer deaths in the US.

14 Sep 2010