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Garmin to Supply Avionics Suite for New Optionally Piloted Aircraft

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today that Northrop Grumman Corporation has selected Garmin to supply the avionics suite for the new Firebird, an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.

20 Nov 2012

Innovative Robotic Technique Better Tracks Tumor Motion for Precise Radiation

Medical physicists at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center are one step closer to bringing a new tumor-tracking technique into the clinic that delivers higher levels of radiation to moving tumors, while sparing healthy tissue in lung cancer patients.

20 Nov 2012

Northrop Grumman, US Navy Perform Ground Testing on Second Triton Unmanned Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy have added a second Triton unmanned aircraft to ground testing efforts in late September – part of an initial step in preparation for flight operations.

20 Nov 2012

CU-Boulder’s Remote Sensing Instrument Package Delivered for Mars Spacecraft Integration

A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the University of Colorado Boulder, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might have lost its atmosphere, has been delivered to Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo., for spacecraft integration.

19 Nov 2012

Huddling Penguin Model May Help Design Swarming Robots

Penguins that face the bitter cold and icy winds of Antarctica often huddle together in large groups for warmth during storms. Mathematicians at the University of California, Merced created a model of penguin huddles that assumes each penguin aims solely to minimize its own heat loss.

19 Nov 2012

Middle Schoolers to Use Robotic Telescopes for Universe Exploration

Approximately 1,400 middle schoolers will explore the universe with research-grade robotic telescopes over the next three years, thanks to a $1.6 million program funded by the National Science Foundation. The University of Chicago will lead the effort, in partnership with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va.; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and 4-H.

17 Nov 2012

US Prime Defense Contractors Sign Teaming Agreement with World Surveillance Group

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAVs") and related technologies, today announced that it has entered into a teaming agreement with U.S. prime defense contractors Command Post Technologies, Inc. ("CPT") and EWA Government Systems, Inc. ("EWA").

17 Nov 2012

NSF Grant to Idaho State University Professor to Design Robotic Hands

Idaho State University mechanical engineering Associate Professor Alba Perez Gracia has been awarded a four-year $445,570 grant through the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Robotics Initiative (NRI) for the design of robotic hands.

17 Nov 2012

Alion to Provide Expertise for Increasing Navy’s Unmanned and Automated Weapon Systems Capabilities

For the Navy, the development of unmanned and automated weapon systems ranks as a top priority to sustain the country’s littoral missions. To support this need, Alion Science and Technology, a global engineering, R&D, IT and operational solutions company, will provide the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (NSWC PCD), with technology development, integration and evaluation expertise under a $24 million contract.

16 Nov 2012

Wireless, Handheld Device Maneuvers Unmanned Aircraft by Remote Control

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy have taken a first critical step toward demonstrating that the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator can be maneuvered safely and wirelessly on the crowded deck of an aircraft carrier.

16 Nov 2012

New Book on Sensors for Mechatronics

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new book "Sensors for Mechatronics" to their offering.

16 Nov 2012

Skills Gained from Playing Video Games Aids Future Robotic Surgeons

What can high school and college-age video game enthusiasts teach young surgeons-in-training?

16 Nov 2012

Raytheon Evaluates Ground Based Sense and Avoid System with the USAF

As the U.S. government prepares for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System by 2015, the U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) have conducted concept evaluation demonstrations that show existing air traffic control equipment could be modified to safely track the presence of nearby unmanned aircraft.

16 Nov 2012

US Navy Conducts NUWC-4 Unmanned Surface Vehicle Missile Firing Tests

Next-generation unmanned ships could be armed with missiles but it's not yet certain when such systems could be operationally-deployed.

15 Nov 2012

Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems Demonstrates New Precision-Guided Mortar Technology

Marking a key milestone in military technology, experts at the Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems (OTC-US℠) facilitated a successful demonstration of newly designed precision-guided mortar rounds, dropped from one of the center’s small unmanned aerial vehicles onto a target almost 1.5 miles below.

15 Nov 2012