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Cassini Spacecraft Robotic Photographer Takes Pictures of the Earth

From its perch in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took pictures of Earth from nearly 900 million miles (nearly 1.5 billion kilometers) today. To celebrate the first time the public has had advance notice that Earth's portrait was being taken from interplanetary distances, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other Earthlings elsewhere gathered to wave at Saturn on July 19. Cassini took pictures of Earth between 2:27 and 2:42 p.m. PDT today.

22 Jul 2013

School Children Experiment with Robot Art Projects

There were robots, all right, but one wore a pink heart. Another took the popular Minecraft computer game as its inspiration, with its creator decked out as a “Creeper.” Still another featured a glowing, purple “Tower of Terror,” a pink flower perched at the top.

20 Jul 2013

New Slocum Autonomous Underwater Gliders Ready for Deployment in the Gulf of Mexico

After tests about 40 miles offshore Galveston, Texas A&M oceanographers declared two new Slocum gliders ready to deploy in the Gulf of Mexico.

20 Jul 2013

Northrop Grumman Delivers Upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout Unmanned System to the U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy got its first look at the upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned system when Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered its first MQ-8C system this month.

20 Jul 2013

Study of Insects’s Movement Without Muscles May Help Improve Control of Robotic Limbs

Neurobiologists from the University of Leicester have shown that insect limbs can move without muscles – a finding that may provide engineers with new ways to improve the control of robotic and prosthetic limbs.

19 Jul 2013

New Report on Educational and Entertainment Robot Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Educational and Entertainment Robot Market Strategy, Market Shares, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014" to their offering.

19 Jul 2013

ATX Midwest Crucial for Automation & Assembly Industry

Automation is at the core of the U.S. market's rising competitive advantage. American manufacturing is re-shoring and leveraging automation and supply chain innovations to compete globally. Observe automation technology in action and see why ATX Midwest is crucial to keeping pace with changing needs, meeting new customers, and engaging in valuable thought-leadership conversations.

19 Jul 2013

Mary Ann Liebert Introduces Preview Issue of Soft Robotics

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has introduced a preview issue of Soft Robotics (SoRo), a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science and engineering of soft materials in mobile machines. The scope and contents of the Journal capture the innovative research on robotic technology that is enabling robots to interact safely with living systems and to function in complex natural or human-built environments.

19 Jul 2013

Harwin Connectors Deliver Reliable Power and Signal Transmission for UWE Underwater Robot

Harwin, the leading hi-rel connector and SMT board hardware manufacturer, has announced that a prize-winning underwater robot project, designed and built for the international SAUC-E (Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe) program by students from the University of the West of England (UWE), depends on hi-rel Datamate connectors to deliver reliable power and signal transmission, even in challenging conditions.

19 Jul 2013

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Completes More Than a Kilometer of Driving

The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0.62 mile.

18 Jul 2013

IU-Purdue Research Team Advances in $2 M DARPA Robotics Challenge

Researchers from Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing are on a team that has advanced in the $2 million U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA Robotics Challenge to develop robots that can execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments.

18 Jul 2013

Maritime UAVs to Become Key Area for Development and Investment

The Royal Navy just spent $45 million on the ScanEagle UAV, which is part of a market set to be worth $8.35 billion by 2018, according to a recent market intelligence report. One thing is clear: the role of UAVs in maritime reconnaissance and surveillance is becoming a key area for development and investment right now.

18 Jul 2013

Magellan Robotic System Now Compatible with Philips' Allura Live Image-Guidance Systems

Hansen Medical, Inc., a global leader in intravascular robotics, and Royal Philips today announced that they have reached an important milestone in their long-term collaboration by securing certified compatibility -- article 12 of the Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC, as amended by 2007/47/EC -- between Hansen Medical's Magellan™ Robotic System and Philips' Allura interventional X-ray systems.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 18 Jul 2013

Vivint Home Automation System Helps Monitor Safety of Children

Vivint™, the largest home automation services company in North America, is helping consumers keep their children safe this summer with home automation.

18 Jul 2013

Robotics and Autonomous Systems Research to Receive £39.4 Million Funding

Three key technologies, identified in the pre-budget statement by The Chancellor of the Exchequer as part of the government’s ‘eight great technologies’ to drive UK growth, are to receive an £85 million investment for capital equipment.

17 Jul 2013