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Trimble Launches Robotic Total Station for the Construction Industry

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today the latest hardware and software for its Trimble® Field Link for MEP and Trimble Field Link for Structures construction layout solutions. Incorporating an auto-focus green laser that replaces the eyepiece, the new Trimble RTS873 Robotic Total Station allows building construction contractors the ability to more easily collect and layout field points using robotic interaction.

From Trimble Navigation Limited 6 Nov 2012

Automated Election Verification System to Carry out Independent Verification of Presidential Elections

Massachusetts-based Clear Ballot, the world’s first automated, independent vote-verification system, in alliance with Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., the market leader in document imaging scanners, will carry out the largest ever independent verification of an election cast on paper ballots. Following tomorrow’s highly anticipated presidential election, Clear Ballot will head to Florida and then to New York State to verify over 1.3 million ballots from seven counties across Florida and three counties in New York.

6 Nov 2012

Rockwell Automation Fair 2012: Teledyne DALSA to Showcase Smart Machine Vision Cameras

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, will showcase its smart cameras and Vision Appliances in Booth 1128 at the Rockwell Automation Fair 2012, a two-day event featuring a wide variety of smart, safe and sustainable manufacturing solutions geared toward improving business profitability.

6 Nov 2012

TowerJazz to Participate at VISION 2012 Conference on Machine Vision Image Sensors

TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced its participation at VISION 2012 on November 6-8, 2012 in Stuttgart, Germany to further its relationships with current image sensor customers and make direct contact with potential new ones.

6 Nov 2012

Live Broadcast of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Myomectomy

Antonio R. Gargiulo, MD of the Center for Infertility and Reproductive Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital completed a live surgery for the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), treating a patient suffering from uterine fibroids with a novel robotic surgical approach and a cutting edge laser technology developed at OmniGuide® in Cambridge, MA.

5 Nov 2012

New Navigation Method for Space Robots Earns Top Honors for Research Students

Months of dedication and hard work in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) paid off tonight for three students named National Finalists in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, the nation's premier research competition.

5 Nov 2012

Q-Free ASA Develops Electronic Toll Collection System

First introduced in Norway in the mid-1980’s, Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) has since been adopted and implemented in many countries across the globe. ETC brings many benefits, including vehicle free-flow, reduced traffic congestion, a decrease in harmful emissions and lower vehicle operating costs to name a few.

From Allied Vision Technologies GmbH 3 Nov 2012

NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes Steps to Understand Martian Atmospheric Changes

NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere.

3 Nov 2012

RIA Awards New Certified Robot Integrator Designation to Wynright

Wynright Corporation, the leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems, today announced it has earned the new Certified Robot Integrator designation from the prestigious Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s foremost trade group.

3 Nov 2012

Agilent’s Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System Enables New Automation Capabilities

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced the Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System, featuring an array of unique technological advances in a single instrument. The Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System is unlike any other instrument available today and will enable new automation capabilities that improve every stage of the research process.

3 Nov 2012