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Enterasys Wins Award for Automated Robotic Optical Inspection System

Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, has been recognized with three 2013 Manufacturing Leadership 100 Awards (ML100 Awards). For 2013, Enterasys is in elite company being only one of four companies to win three ML100 awards. Other triple winners are IBM, Lexmark International and Lockheed-Martin.

15 Mar 2013

Novel Curriculum Provides Safe Training on da Vinci Robotic Surgical System

15 Mar 2013

MIT Technology Review Lists Rethink Robotics among 2013’s Disruptive Companies

Rethink Robotics has been identified in the field of Computing & Communication as one of 2013's 50 Disruptive Companies, MIT Technology Review's annual list of the world's most innovative technology companies.

15 Mar 2013

Harper Government Supports Western Canada's Unmanned Vehicle Systems Sector

The Harper Government is supporting Western Canada's unmanned vehicle systems (UVS) sector through an investment that aims to improve competitiveness and productivity for the aerospace and defence industry.

15 Mar 2013

OnPoynt Flight School to Present Quadrotor Build and Fly Camp at Sci-Tech Discovery Center

Sci-Tech Discovery Center announces its inaugural Quadrotor Build and Fly Camp presented by OnPoynt Flight School to be held April 13 -14.

14 Mar 2013

Raytheon to Supply Scalable Sonar System for Anti-Submarine/Undersea Warfare Missions

Raytheon Company was awarded a sub-contract from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to deliver its first 5th generation medium frequency hull mounted sonar system as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program.

14 Mar 2013

Restoration Robotics’ ARTAS System Installed at Mosaic Clinic in Houston, Texas

Restoration Robotics, Inc. today announced the installation of its revolutionary ARTAS® System at the Mosaic Clinic in Houston, Texas. Dr. Rashid is one of the few Hair Physicians in the country to hold both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees and an enhanced background in research.

14 Mar 2013

Mazor Robotics Renaissance Guidance System Offers 98.9% Implant Accuracy

A study recently published in European Spine Journal concluded 98.9 percent accuracy when implanting pedicle screws using Mazor Robotics Renaissance™ Guidance System in a study group of 101 consecutive cases performed by Dr. Isador Lieberman of Texas Back Institute. 1 Ninety percent of the sample group had severe deformity and/or previous spine surgery that failed to correct the condition.

14 Mar 2013

Rethink Robotics' Baxter Robot Named Finalist in Edison Awards

Rethink Robotics has been named a 2013 Award Finalist by the internationally renowned Edison Awards™. Rethink Robotics' Baxter robot is a Finalist in the Living, Working and Learning Environments category, one of twelve categories honored by the Edison Awards.

13 Mar 2013

Unmanned Aircraft Industry Set to Create Over 70,000 New American Jobs

Today, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) unveiled a new study, which finds that the unmanned aircraft industry is poised to create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U.S. national airspace system (NAS).

13 Mar 2013

MLB Concludes Project on Autonomous Delivery of Payload Using Vertical Take-Off UAV

MLB Company, a leader in low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, services and products, today announced it has concluded a DARPA funded research project to demonstrate precision autonomous delivery and placement of payload using its vertical take-off and landing UAV, the V-Bat.

13 Mar 2013

NASA's Curiosity Rover Reveals Living Microbes in Ancient Mars

An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

13 Mar 2013

Simulation-Based Robotic Surgery Training Curriculum Found Effective

Researchers from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and four collaborating institutions have evaluated the effectiveness of a novel curriculum to safely train surgeons on the da Vinci Surgical System, which is used to perform robot-assisted surgeries. Results, published in Urology, showed that participants trained in the curriculum executed key skills with greater precision than those who did not receive training.

13 Mar 2013

Carnegie Mellon Builds Human-Size Robot with Tank-Like Movements for DARPA Challenge

A team from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center is building a new class of robot to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Robotics Challenge — a human-size robot that moves, not by walking, but on rubberized tracks on the extremities of each of its four limbs.

13 Mar 2013

Partial Kidney Removal Using Robotic Surgery Leads to Better Overall Survival

For patients with kidney tumors, a new study shows the health and economic advantages to removing just the tumor as opposed to the entire kidney. Robotic surgery, including the daVinci Surgical System and Firefly fluorescence imaging that lights up kidney tumors, are among the latest techniques to make this possible.

12 Mar 2013