NASA has announced that the registration for the Fourth Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is now open. The event is a university-level competition designed to encourage innovative lunar excavation concepts that may possibly be used during an actual lunar excavation.
By Kalwinder Kaur
28 Aug 2012
The International Federation of Robotics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has designated Universal Robots’ UR5 robotic arm as "The world's most innovative robot". Along with UR10, the award winning UR5 robotic arm will be debuted.
Quantum International is exploring novel improvement in robotic exoskeletons that have potential applications as real life savers.
By Kalwinder Kaur
28 Aug 2012
University of Southampton researchers are exploring the efficiency of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to implement next-generation traffic control.
By Kalwinder Kaur
27 Aug 2012
Stanford marine biologists recently identified a white shark along the California coast north of San Francisco, marking the first step of advancement in "wired ocean". This project gives real-time information of sharks and other animals, and also introduces a new iPhone and iPad app to better connect to ocean and marine creatures.
By Kalwinder Kaur
27 Aug 2012
Royal Philips Electronics and Corindus Vascular Robotics declared that they have entered into a distribution agreement to market Corindus' CorPath 200 System in the US.
By Nick Gilbert
27 Aug 2012
Kirby Lester and Tri State Distribution declared that the Kirby Lester KL60 compact robotic dispenser is the unique pharmacy automation for the TriMaxx 3-sided container/closure/label system. This strategic technology partnership was declared on the eve of the yearly NACDS Pharmacy & Technology Conference that took place at Denver, Colorado.
By Kalwinder Kaur
27 Aug 2012
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has unveiled the ‘PS series’, an innovative professional-grade robotic total station developed to have higher power, precision and potential than other robotic total stations existing on the market. Based onTopcon’s new PowerTrac technology, the PS enhances prism tracking power.
By Kalwinder Kaur
24 Aug 2012
With leading position in advanced medical technology, Saddleback Memorial Medical Center has been selected as the first Robotic Training Epicenter for gynecologic surgery in Orange County, California.
By Nick Gilbert
24 Aug 2012
US military scientists are developing an unmanned submarine that can hang around underwater for several months to track the presence of enemy submarines.
By Kalwinder Kaur
24 Aug 2012
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has started moving on the Martian surface from its landing ground, with its drive combined forward, reverse and turn segments.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 Aug 2012
Quantum International, an robotics innovation company focusing on the commercialization of advanced automated technology, has reported the completion of due diligence and is progressing towards a potential joint venture with Warsaw-based Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurement (PIAP), one of the key robotics laboratories in Europe.
By Nick Gilbert
23 Aug 2012
Hansen Medical, an innovator of intravascular robotics, recently declared that it has received 30 additional U.S. patents since January 2011, thereby augmenting its intellectual property range in medical robotics. In addition, Hansen Medical shares rights to over 250 issued U.S. patents associated with medical robotics via licensing arrangement with third parties.
FIPA has introduced a customized insert-gripper designed for handling inserts in plastic injection-molded parts. The compact solution is touted to be economically feasible even from batch size 1. FIPA insert-grippers are designed for use in various domains such as electronics, pharmaceuticals and automobile industries.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 Aug 2012
Led by Professor Mark Campbell, and assistant professor Hadas Kress-Gazit, the students at the Cornell's Autonomous Systems Lab in Rhodes Hall are working with a target of revolutionizing the functional capabilities of robots. Several student researchers demonstrated their latest contributions through a project demo during the end of last semester.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 Aug 2012