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DARPA to Employ Polaris RANGER in Robotics Challenge

Polaris® Industries Inc., the leading manufacturer of off-road vehicles, today announced that Polaris RANGER® XP 900 EPS vehicles will be used as part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge to be held December 20-21, 2013, at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, in Homestead, Fla.

27 Nov 2013

Siemens Industry Automation Division Develops Narrow IO Modules for Simatic ET 200MP Distributed I/O

The Siemens Industry Automation Division has developed narrow IO modules with a width of just 25 millimeters (mm) for the Simatic ET 200MP distributed I/O.

27 Nov 2013

RoboThespian Manufacturer, Engineered Arts, Receives igus manus UK Award

High-performance polymer bearings expert igus has presented a prestigious manus UK award to Engineered Arts.

From igus Inc. 27 Nov 2013

RobotSafariEU at Science Museum, London to Explore the World of Biomimetic Robots

The Science Museum, London, opens exhibition showing 13 Robot SafariEU biomimetic robots throughout Europe. Only two are Spanish, Bat-Bot and ITuna. They have been designed by UPM researchers.

26 Nov 2013

Health Robotics Announced its Final Schedule for ASHP Midyear Exhibition in Orlando

Health Robotics today announced its final (revised) schedule for the ASHP Midyear Exhibition in Orlando, to be held between December 8 and December 12, 2013.

26 Nov 2013

Neato Signature - Highly Effective Robot Vacuum for Picking Pet Hair

Giving the gift of a vacuum cleaner for the holidays might not be the obvious choice....unless the gift is for a dog or cat owner. What pet owner wouldn’t be delighted with the gift of a robot that vacuums floors by itself, cleans when they’re not home, sucks up pet hair from all types of floors and can even entertain their dog or cat?

26 Nov 2013

Northrop Grumman Delivered Second MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter to the U.S. Navy

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the second MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter to the U.S. Navy after completing final assembly at the company's unmanned systems center in Moss Point, Miss.

26 Nov 2013

Tauriga Sciences Executed Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cincinnati, Ohio based Pilus Energy

Tauriga Sciences Inc. or ("Tauriga" or "the Company"), a diversified company focused on generating profitable revenues through license agreements and the development of a proprietary technology platform in the nanorobotics space, has today announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire Cincinnati, Ohio based Pilus Energy LLC ("Pilus Energy"), a developer of alternative cleantech energy platforms using proprietary microbial solutions that creates electricity while consuming polluting molecules from wastewater.

26 Nov 2013

Xilinx Announced Accelerated Design Productivity for Machine Vision Applications

Xilinx, Inc. today announced accelerated design productivity for machine vision applications, leveraging HALCON and VisualApplets development platforms to create an end-to-end Smarter Vision development environment for the Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC.

26 Nov 2013

Dr Robert Gregg Receives NIH Award for Groundbreaking Research in Prosthetic Systems

Dr. Robert Gregg, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering who joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Sciencethis fall, is a recipient of a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research that will combine robot control theory and physical rehabilitation to revolutionize and improve prosthetic limbs and orthotic devices.

25 Nov 2013

Researchers Build Jellyfish-like Aerial Robot

Up, up in the sky: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a . . . jellyfish? That's what researchers have built -- a small vehicle whose flying motion resembles the movements of those boneless, pulsating, water-dwelling creatures.

25 Nov 2013

Honeybee Robotics Develops Two Unique Flight subsystems for DARPA On-Site Assembly Program

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation today announced it has begun developing flight models of its unique telerobotic end effectors for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Phoenix on-orbit satellite assembly program. Phase II of the project, which intends to lead up to design, assembly and validation of the flight units, builds on work the company started in July 2012.

From Honeybee Robotics 25 Nov 2013

University Health Shreveport Uses Xenex’s Room Disinfection Robot for Patient Safety

University Health Shreveport is the first and only acute care hospital in Louisiana to use Xenex Disinfection Services' germ-zapping technology to increase patient safety.

25 Nov 2013

Valtronic Ships its First Intelligent VERASENSE Knee System by OrthoSensor

Valtronic, an electronic contract manufacturer, ships its first VERASENSE™ Knee System created by OrthoSensor™ from its new bioburden ISO Class 8 clean room.

25 Nov 2013

AAC Successfully Demonstrates Mine-Hunting Capabilities During 2013 FLEX Unmanned Systems Campaign

Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC), a joint venture between DRS Technologies and Thales, successfully demonstrated advanced mine-hunting capabilities with the US Navy during the 2013 Fleet Experimentation (FLEX) Unmanned Systems (UxS) Campaign. By towing the unmanned high resolution synthetic aperture sonar (T-SAS), the system detected all exercise mines with increased area clearance rates.

22 Nov 2013

Robotics News

DARPA to Employ Polaris RANGER in Robotics Challenge

Siemens Industry Automation Division Develops Narrow IO Modules for Simatic ET 200MP Distributed I/O

RoboThespian Manufacturer, Engineered Arts, Receives igus manus UK Award

RobotSafariEU at Science Museum, London to Explore the World of Biomimetic Robots

Health Robotics Announced its Final Schedule for ASHP Midyear Exhibition in Orlando

Neato Signature - Highly Effective Robot Vacuum for Picking Pet Hair

Northrop Grumman Delivered Second MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter to the U.S. Navy

Tauriga Sciences Executed Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cincinnati, Ohio based Pilus Energy

Xilinx Announced Accelerated Design Productivity for Machine Vision Applications

Dr Robert Gregg Receives NIH Award for Groundbreaking Research in Prosthetic Systems

Researchers Build Jellyfish-like Aerial Robot

Honeybee Robotics Develops Two Unique Flight subsystems for DARPA On-Site Assembly Program

University Health Shreveport Uses Xenex’s Room Disinfection Robot for Patient Safety

Valtronic Ships its First Intelligent VERASENSE Knee System by OrthoSensor

AAC Successfully Demonstrates Mine-Hunting Capabilities During 2013 FLEX Unmanned Systems Campaign

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