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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

ESS Robotic Case Erector/Loader to be Integrated with Xyntek-Antares Track & Trace Solution

ESS Technologies, Inc. and Xyntek-Antares have partnered to develop a track & trace case packing solution to be demonstrated in booth #3188 at the upcoming Interphex NY conference and exhibition at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on April 23-25, 2013.

From Xyntek Inc. 12 Mar 2013

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Drone to Acquire Data over Gulf and South Texas

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will conduct the first mission over the Gulf of Mexico with their unmanned aircraft from Monday, March 11, through Friday, March 15.

12 Mar 2013

Hong Kong Adventist Oncology Center Offers CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery and TomoTherapy

Accuray Incorporated, announced today that Hong Kong Adventist Oncology Center, the first center locally to offer both the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery and TomoTherapy® Systems, hosted its official opening ceremony last week.

From Accuray Incorporated 12 Mar 2013

Fleet of Social Robots to Interact with Pediatric Patients

Introducing a fleet of social robots in a hospital, so that they can interact with children affected by cancer, will be the final outcome of a new international research project that Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) is participating in.

12 Mar 2013

BrewExpo America: Intelligrated to Highlight Scalable Automated Material Handling Solutions

Intelligrated®, a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, will showcase its suite of solutions for breweries in booth #5106 at BrewExpo America®, March 26-29, in Washington D.C.

From Honeywell Intelligrated 12 Mar 2013

Researchers Develop Cloud-Computing Platform for Robots

Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers - the giant server farms behind the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon - for robotics tasks and robot learning.

12 Mar 2013