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NASA Announces ‘Mars 2020 Mission Investigations Announcement of Opportunity’ Competition

NASA has released its announcement of an open competition for the planetary community to submit proposals for the science and exploration technology instruments that would be carried aboard the agency's next Mars rover, scheduled for launch in July/August of 2020.

30 Sep 2013

Reaction Times of Robots Can be Reduced to Address Threat of Chaos

When chaos threatens, speed is essential; for example, when a pacemaker needs to stabilise an irregular heartbeat or a robot has to react to the information received from its environment. Both cases require imposing a stable, organised state on a chaotic system.

30 Sep 2013

NASA Astronauts Practice Launch Into Space Aboard Orion Spacecraft

For the first time, NASA astronauts are practicing a launch into space aboard the agency's Orion spacecraft, and provided feedback on the new capsule's cockpit design.

30 Sep 2013

KAIST Team Develops Unmanned Aquatic Robot to Eradicate Jellyfish

A team led by KAIST Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s Professor Hyeon Myeong has just finished testing the cooperative assembly robot for jellyfish population control, named JEROS, in the field.

30 Sep 2013

Cygnus Spacecraft’s Rendezvous Date with International Space Station Approved

NASA and its International Space Station partners have approved a Sunday, Sept. 29, target arrival of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft on its demonstration cargo resupply mission to the space station.

30 Sep 2013

NASA Mars Rover Completes Comprehensive Mineralogical Analysis

NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere.

27 Sep 2013

Raytheon’s AI3 Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative System Destroys UAS in Test Flight

In a first-of-its-kind test for Raytheon Company's Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative system, AI3 destroyed an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in flight. The intercept was part of the second guided test flights for the AI3 program and follows its first in-flight defeat of a 107mm rocket earlier in the test series.

27 Sep 2013

Rockwell Automation Launches New Power Monitoring Solutions

Irregularities in incoming power can negatively impact discrete and process applications’ electronic components and the bottom line. Rockwell Automation has expanded its Allen Bradley power-quality portfolio to now include the i-Sense monitoring solution, i-Grid service and DySC dynamic sag corrector. These scalable solutions help OEMs and end users identify and mitigate power issues to improve uptime and productivity.

From Rockwell Automation, Inc. 27 Sep 2013

Supply Chain Digest Features Flexible Robotic Automated Guided Vehicles Producer, Seegrid

Supply Chain Digest recently featured Seegrid, maker of flexible robotic Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) as an innovative solution in material handling. According to the article, “As the cost of many recent AGV systems goes down the flexibility goes up. A growing number of manufacturers are starting to see if an automated approach to this repetitive materials movement task might not be the better system.”

From Seegrid Corporation 27 Sep 2013

New Feedback System Will Allow Robots to Operate with Minimal Supervision

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a new feedback system to remotely control mobile robots. This innovative research will allow robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to a robot that can learn or even become autonomous.

27 Sep 2013

Texas A&M Student Represents Small UAV Research at Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus Fair

Brittany Duncan, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was featured in the press release for the Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus' Science and Technology Fair held in Washington DC on Thursday, September 19, 2013.

27 Sep 2013

LTAS to Supply Five Custom Aerostat Systems to the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial systems, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lighter Than Air Systems Corp. ("LTAS"), has received an order from prime defense contractor Universal Solutions International for five custom aerostat systems and subcomponents to support the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force ("REF").

27 Sep 2013

Surgeons on Call to Discuss Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer

If you’re covering Dr. Drew’s announcement that he underwent robotic surgery to remove his prostate after he learned he had cancer, Penn Medicine’s urologists, including David I. Lee, MD, chief of the division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, who has performed more than 3,700 robotic prostatectomies, and Thomas J. Guzzo MD, MPH, who performs this procedure and many other robotic surgery techniques for urinary problems at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, are on call to discuss this popular procedure.

26 Sep 2013

ARGO Partners with YASKAWA for Global Expansion of ReWalk Exoskeleton

ARGO Medical Technologies has partnered with innovative robotics experts YASKAWA Electric Corporation as it continues the global expansion of its ReWalk exoskeleton device which enables individuals with lower limb disabilities such as paraplegia to walk.

26 Sep 2013

Stryker to Acquire MAKO Surgical

MAKO Surgical Corp. today announced a definitive agreement with Stryker Corporation, by which Stryker will acquire all of the outstanding shares of MAKO for $30.00 per share in cash, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.65 billion.

26 Sep 2013