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Rethink Robotics Partners with Nihon Binary to Distribute Baxter Research Robot in Japan

Rethink Robotics today announced it has expanded the distribution of its Baxter Research Robot into the Asian market by signing an exclusive partnership with Nihon Binary, a leading robotics and technology supplier, to distribute the revolutionary humanoid research robot in Japan.

8 Nov 2013

Boston Engineering to Incubate Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Technology at UMass Dartmouth ATMC

Boston Engineering Corporation today announced the opening of an office at the ATMC of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA.

7 Nov 2013

NASA Awards UTSA $300,000 to Build Fourth Prototype of ‘Lab-on-a-Robot’

University of Texas at San Antonio Chemistry Professor Carlos Garcia, UTSA Physics Professor Arturo Ayon and HJ Science & Technology Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. have been awarded more than $300,000 in NASA funding to build the fourth prototype of a "lab-on-a-robot" (LOAR). The Rover-like prototype will be designed to conduct on-site planetary compositional analysis.

7 Nov 2013

MTSI to Enter Into Commercial UAS Marketplace

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), a leading systems engineering provider in the Government Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) domain, today announced the expansion of its world-class UAS services into the Commercial UAS marketplace. This emerging market, estimated by various sources at a potential $10 billion within three years, has been inhibited by the lack of a regulatory structure for integrating UAS into the National Airspace System (NAS) as well as the absence of established Standards for airspace-enabling UAS technologies.

7 Nov 2013

Endomicroscopy with Cellvizio Successfully Used in Patients Treated With Robotic Assisted Radical Prostatectomy

Mauna Kea Technologies announced today that Joseph C. Liao MD, associate professor of urology, Stanford University, has successfully used endomicroscopy with Cellvizio for the first time in eight patients treated with robotic assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) procedures. Results were presented in a poster presentation at the 2013 World Congress of Endourology Meeting in New Orleans in October where the procedure was also named “Best New Innovation.”

7 Nov 2013

Exelis Awarded $20.6 M Contract to Produce Ejector Rack for MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Exelis has been awarded a $20.6 million contract by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of Poway, Calif., to produce the BRU-71/A ejector rack for the Predator® B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft.

7 Nov 2013

Evana Automation to Supply Custom Automated Assembly System for Tier 1 Automotive Supplier

Evana Automation Specialists, a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries (PSI) and leading Systems Integrator and builder of custom, automated assembly and test systems, recently received a contract from a Tier 1 automotive supplier to provide a custom automated assembly system that will assemble and test ABS brake control modules.

7 Nov 2013

CyPhy Works Closes $7 Million Financing to Expand Development of UAVs

CyPhy Works, a leading developer of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), today announced the close of a $7 million financing round led by Lux Capital, with participation from General Catalyst Partners, Felicis Ventures and several undisclosed prominent angel investors. As part of the financing, Lux Capital Partner Bilal Zuberi will join the CyPhy Works board of directors.

7 Nov 2013

Mazor Robotics Closes Public Offering of American Depositary Shares

Mazor Robotics Ltd., (the “Company”) the developer of Renaissance™, an innovative surgical guidance system and its complementary products, announced today the closing of its previously announced public offering of 2,760,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), including ADSs issued pursuant to the underwriters option to purchase additional shares, at a price of $17.00 per ADS, bringing total gross proceeds from the offering to $46,920,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by the Company.

From Medtronic 7 Nov 2013

Nordson ASYMTEK Launches Automatic Precision Fluid Dispensing System for Microelectronics Assembly

Nordson ASYMTEK, a Nordson company, a leader in dispensing and jetting technologies, will introduce the Spectrum™ II at Productronica this year, marking the 6-year anniversary of the introduction of the Spectrum series of high-speed, high-accuracy dispensing platforms for a wide variety of precision dispensing applications in microelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing and MEMS and LED assembly.

6 Nov 2013

Tauriga Initiates Steps to Develop Bacterial Robot for Nuclear Energy Production Industry

Tauriga Sciences Inc. ("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 obtained a detailed chemical profile and analysis of effluent discharged from a major United States ("U.S.") based nuclear power plant (pressurized water reactor).

6 Nov 2013

Robotic-Assisted Lung Surgery Associated With Significantly Lower Death Rates

A new study comparing open surgery, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), and robotic-assisted surgery to remove diseased lung tissue found that robotic-assisted surgery is associated with significantly lower death rates, lower overall complication rates, and shorter hospital stays compared with open surgery. Researchers also concluded that robotic-assisted surgery is an appropriate alternative to VATS.

From Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 6 Nov 2013

Newly Proposed Technology for Utilizing In-Orbit Robots to Capture Malfunctioning Satellites

Using an in-orbit robot to capturing a malfunctioning satellite that is tumbling out of control is currently just a theoretical idea. However, research inspired by nature to be published in the forthcoming issue of International Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems, could take us a small step towards making such science fiction science fact.

6 Nov 2013

DARPA Selects AeroVironment for TERN Program to Develop Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. announced that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide its market-leading expertise in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) toward the development of a new category of this technology.

From AeroVironment, Inc. 6 Nov 2013

MIRTEC Honored with 2013 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Company of the Year

Based on its recent analysis of the surface mount technology (SMT) automatic optical inspection (AOI) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes MIRTEC Co. Ltd. with the 2013 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Company of the Year. MIRTEC is a pioneer in 3D AOI technology and has demonstrated an ability to provide innovations ahead of its peers, allowing it to command premium prices in a cost-conscious market.

6 Nov 2013

Robotics News

Rethink Robotics Partners with Nihon Binary to Distribute Baxter Research Robot in Japan

Boston Engineering to Incubate Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Technology at UMass Dartmouth ATMC

NASA Awards UTSA $300,000 to Build Fourth Prototype of ‘Lab-on-a-Robot’

MTSI to Enter Into Commercial UAS Marketplace

Endomicroscopy with Cellvizio Successfully Used in Patients Treated With Robotic Assisted Radical Prostatectomy

Exelis Awarded $20.6 M Contract to Produce Ejector Rack for MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Evana Automation to Supply Custom Automated Assembly System for Tier 1 Automotive Supplier

CyPhy Works Closes $7 Million Financing to Expand Development of UAVs

Mazor Robotics Closes Public Offering of American Depositary Shares

Nordson ASYMTEK Launches Automatic Precision Fluid Dispensing System for Microelectronics Assembly

Tauriga Initiates Steps to Develop Bacterial Robot for Nuclear Energy Production Industry

Robotic-Assisted Lung Surgery Associated With Significantly Lower Death Rates

Newly Proposed Technology for Utilizing In-Orbit Robots to Capture Malfunctioning Satellites

DARPA Selects AeroVironment for TERN Program to Develop Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance UAS

MIRTEC Honored with 2013 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Company of the Year

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