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Advanced Unmanned Approves Specifications for Customized UAV Fleet

Aerial imagery company Advanced Unmanned approved the specifications for its customized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet, completing the design phase of the aerospace project.

11 Dec 2012

Brunel Student Engineers Build Unmanned, Engineless Toy Glider

A team of student engineers from Brunel University helped design and build an unmanned, engineless toy glider in an attempt to fly over 22 miles of sea for a TV special to be shown this Christmas.

11 Dec 2012

Human-Like Robots to Perceive the Environment

Imagine a human-like robot with skin and clothes embedded with sensors that could help machine accurately perceive the environment and better assist human owners.

10 Dec 2012

Wireless Connectivity May Play a Major Role in Remote Patient Monitoring

A slew of new devices leveraging improved connectivity to mobile handsets have fueled strong growth for wearable wireless mHealth devices in 2012. By the end of the year, nearly 30 million devices will have shipped, up 37% on 2011 shipments.

10 Dec 2012

TowerJazz Selects Eyelit Semiconductor Edition Manufacturing Execution System Suite

Eyelit Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense, discrete electronics, semiconductor, and photovoltaic (solar) industries, announced today that TowerJazz, one of the world’s largest pure-play semiconductor foundries, has selected the Eyelit Semiconductor Edition™ MES suite to be used in the fab of its subsidiary TowerJazz Japan, Ltd.

10 Dec 2012

Golden Jubilee National Hospital Performs Robotic NavioPFS Unicondylar Knee Replacement

Blue Belt Technologies, Inc. announces the first NavioPFS™ unicondylar knee replacement (UKR) procedure performed at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland on December 6, 2012. Dr. Fred Picard successfully performed the surgery using the NavioPFS surgical system. Dr. Picard is a renowned orthopedist and past winner of the Muller Award from the CAOS (Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery) International Society.

10 Dec 2012

Automated, Intelligent Gear May Play a Critical Role in the Market for Substations

The convergence of key technology developments, stronger business cases, and growing regulatory acceptance is accelerating grid modernization. Substations and the increasingly automated and intelligent gear embedded within them will play a critical role in this transformation.

10 Dec 2012

AirGate-GPRS Remote Monitoring and Site Automation System Integrates Cinterion TC65i Quad-Band Wireless Module

Cinterion, Gemalto’s machine-to-machine (M2M) business segment and the global leader in cellular M2M communication technology, announces that its TC65i quad-band wireless module has been fully integrated in the AirGate-GPRS system for remote monitoring and site automation.

10 Dec 2012

Virginia Retirement Community to Get Remote Health Care Monitoring Solutions

Residents of one of the country's top-rated retirement communities will soon be able to experience the benefits of remote health care monitoring to ensure resident safety, security and quality of care.

7 Dec 2012

Swiss Department of Defence Receives Aurora’s First Centaur Optionally-Piloted Aircraft

Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that it delivered the world's first production Optionally-Piloted Aircraft (OPA) system to Switzerland's Department of Defence. The Centaur OPA, flown by an onboard crew in FAA Normal Category, departed the Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia on November 26 for delivery to armasuisse at the Emmen Military Airfield in Switzerland. It arrived at Emmen on November 28.

7 Dec 2012

Remote Monitoring Solutions Provider Wins 11 of MSP Industry’s Top Awards

Setting a new standard of excellence, N-able Technologies, the global leader in remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software, today announced it has earned 11 of the managed service provider (MSP) industry's top awards in 2012 while also achieving an all-time high in partner satisfaction since the company's inception.

7 Dec 2012

First Practical Robotic Platform for Tablet Telepresence from Revolve Robotics

Revolve Robotics, an emerging leader in mobile-controlled personal robotics, today introduced Kubi, an easy-to-use robotic platform designed to vastly improve the use of Facetime, Skype, and other video calling or telepresence applications on tablet computers such as the iPad. Kubi allows remote users to "look around" the remote location during video calls by telling the robotic platform where to aim the tablet using intuitive remote controls over the Web.

7 Dec 2012

Sorin Group Achieves Key Milestone in Patient Remote Monitoring

Sorin Group, (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today the first implant of PARADYM RF in Canada at the Montreal Heart Institute. The PARADYMTM RF family of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-D) devices is fully supported by the recently launched SMARTVIEWTM remote monitoring system.

7 Dec 2012

NASA's Unmanned Global Hawk Aircraft to Study Pollutants in the Stratosphere

NASA is inviting social media followers for a behind-the-scenes look at several airborne Earth science missions during an event Jan. 25 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif.

6 Dec 2012

Liquid Robotics’ Papa Mau Wave Glider Covers 9,000 Miles across the Pacific

U.S. based Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data service provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, today announced the first Pacific Crossing (PacX) Wave Glider, "Papa Mau," completed its 9,000 nautical mile (16,668 kilometers) scientific journey across the Pacific Ocean to set a new world record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle. Throughout his journey, Papa Mau navigated along a prescribed route under autonomous control collecting and transmitting unprecedented amounts of high-resolution ocean data never before available over these vast distances or timeframes.

From Liquid Robotics 6 Dec 2012