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Mind-Controlled Robots Hold Potential in Medicine, Manufacturing Fields

Worried that machines will someday control the human race? If so, relax.

14 Nov 2013

Mars Rover Teams Select Planetary Scientist Murray’s Name for Significant Landmarks

Features on Mars important to the missions of NASA's two active Mars rovers are now called "Murray Ridge" and "Murray Buttes," in honor of influential planetary scientist Bruce Murray (1931-2013).

14 Nov 2013

Study on Stingray Movement for Next Generation UUVs to be Presented at 66th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at Buffalo and Harvard University are studying how their movements could be used to design more agile and fuel-efficient unmanned underwater vehicles.

14 Nov 2013

Curiosity Rover Returns to Normal Engineering Operations

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project received confirmation from Mars Sunday (Nov. 10) that the Curiosity rover has successfully transitioned back into nominal surface operations mode. Curiosity had been in safe mode since Nov. 7, when an unexpected software reboot (also known as a warm reset) occurred during a communications pass with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

14 Nov 2013

Robosaur Helps Study How Dinosaurs Walked

Kingsbury, a doctoral candidate in physics and researcher in the Complex Rheology and Biomechanics (CRAB) Lab at Georgia Tech, is working with Associate Professor Daniel Goldman and Stephen Gatesy at Brown University to build a “Robosaur.” The idea is to study how dinosaurs walked, with the goal of using the secrets of the past to enhance the future. Their project is up for funding on Georgia Tech Starter, a new peer-reviewed crowd-funding website.

14 Nov 2013

iRobot Launches Next-Generation Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot

iRobot Corp., the leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, today brings to market the next-generation Roomba cleaning system that revolutionizes robotic vacuum cleaning. The iRobot Roomba 880 vacuum cleaning robot, iRobot’s most advanced Roomba yet, is now available in North America at www.irobot.com/roomba.

From iRobot Corporation 13 Nov 2013

ISRO Plans Supplementary Orbit Raising Manoeuvre for Mars Orbiter Spacecraft

In the fourth orbit-raising operation conducted this morning (Nov 11, 2013), the apogee (farthest point to Earth) of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was raised from 71,623 km to 78,276 km by imparting an incremental velocity of 35 metres/second (as against 130 metres/second originally planned to raise apogee to about 100,000 [1 lakh] km). The spacecraft is in normal health. A supplementary orbit-raising operation is planned tomorrow (November 12, 2013) at 0500 hrs IST to raise the apogee to nearly 1 lakh km.

13 Nov 2013

Digi Launches Fully Integrated, Cellular-Enabled Remote Tank-Level Monitoring Solution

Digi International today launched Digi Connect® Tank, a fully integrated, cellular-enabled remote tank-level monitoring solution for single tanks, totes and containers. Digi Connect Tank, the latest addition to Digi’s family of solutions for tank monitoring, helps companies manage remote single tank assets efficiently and cost effectively through up-to-the-minute tank level and location data.

13 Nov 2013

AIS Introduces Explosion-Proof HMIs for Remote Monitoring in Oil & Gas Transportation

American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS), the designer and manufacturer of hazardous area HMIs for oil and gas transportation and pipeline safety applications, has introduced new rugged, Industrial Panel PCs for this market. Used for remote monitoring, local and in the field control room, these new explosion proof Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) from AIS are specifically engineered for operation in oil and gas pipeline and monitoring applications for safe control, management, handling and transportation of hazardous liquids and gases.

13 Nov 2013

Georgia Tech Starter Supports BioBot and Robosaur Projects

In need of funding for a creative research project? Well, a new Georgia Tech-backed crowdfunding website may be just the resource you’re looking for.

13 Nov 2013

Researchers Endeavor to Develop Brain-Computer Interface for Spring-Assisted Leg Exoskeleton

What if certain patients could get a bionic pick-up without undergoing the pain and lengthy recovery of surgery? University of Cincinnati researchers are working on just that idea, with the start of an exoskeleton to support people who – through age or injury – are limited in their movement.

13 Nov 2013

Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute Procures Mazor Robotics’ Renaissance System

Mazor Robotics Ltd., the developer of Renaissance™, an innovative surgical guidance system and its complementary products, announced today that Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute, located in Ft. Pierce, FL, has purchased its first Renaissance system.

From Medtronic 12 Nov 2013

Comprehensive Report on Global Market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the Global Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Market - with Forecasts to 2018" report to their offering.

12 Nov 2013

CWRU Team Receives NIH Grant to Develop MRI-Guided Robotic Heart Catheter

In a matter of years, a doctor may see real-time images of a patient’s beating heart and steer a robotic catheter through its chambers using the push and pull of magnetic fields while the patient lies inside a magnetic resonance imager.

12 Nov 2013

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Marks 200 Terabit Milestone

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has overhauled understanding of the Red Planet since 2006, has passed 200 terabits in the amount of science data returned. The data returned by the mission alone is more than three times the total data returned via NASA's Deep Space Network for all the other missions managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., over the past 10 years.

12 Nov 2013

Robotics News

Mind-Controlled Robots Hold Potential in Medicine, Manufacturing Fields

Mars Rover Teams Select Planetary Scientist Murray’s Name for Significant Landmarks

Study on Stingray Movement for Next Generation UUVs to be Presented at 66th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Curiosity Rover Returns to Normal Engineering Operations

Robosaur Helps Study How Dinosaurs Walked

iRobot Launches Next-Generation Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot

ISRO Plans Supplementary Orbit Raising Manoeuvre for Mars Orbiter Spacecraft

Digi Launches Fully Integrated, Cellular-Enabled Remote Tank-Level Monitoring Solution

AIS Introduces Explosion-Proof HMIs for Remote Monitoring in Oil & Gas Transportation

Georgia Tech Starter Supports BioBot and Robosaur Projects

Researchers Endeavor to Develop Brain-Computer Interface for Spring-Assisted Leg Exoskeleton

Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute Procures Mazor Robotics’ Renaissance System

Comprehensive Report on Global Market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

CWRU Team Receives NIH Grant to Develop MRI-Guided Robotic Heart Catheter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Marks 200 Terabit Milestone

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