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Opportunity to Interact with Robots at NYU-Poly Research Expo

As a newly minted class of engineers walk the stage at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University Commencement next week, New Yorkers will have an opportunity to walk into the future, as Downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Plaza transforms for the university's first annual Research Expo.

17 May 2013

Remote On-Site Power Generation Monitoring Company, OMNIMETRIX, Moves to New Headquarters

OMNIMETRIX, LLC, an Acorn Energy company and the global leader in wireless remote monitoring and diagnostics for emergency standby generators, has moved to its new, state-of-the-art corporate headquarters in Buford, GA.

17 May 2013

NASA Reports Progress in OSIRIS-REx Mission to Sample Asteroid Bennu

NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.

17 May 2013

GeckoSystems Reports Final Negotiations for Licensing of Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. has announced that final negotiations for licensing of their "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(tm)" are ongoing. This first joint venture and licensing agreement has been long sought by the management of GeckoSystems as irrefutable proof of the benefit and "value proposition" of their many years of R&D, testing, and marketing.

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 17 May 2013

VEX Robotics to Showcase VEX IQ at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013

VEX Robotics, Inc., announced today its support of, and presence at, the Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18-19, where the company will have a booth (#459) to make its consumer debut of VEX IQ – a robotics platform designed to transform STEM learning for young students and teachers.

From VEX Robotics, Inc 16 May 2013

Robotic Kidney Transplantation Gives New Hope to Obese Patients

Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System.

16 May 2013

Temple Engineering Graduates to Attend NASA Robotics Program

As sophomores, engineering students Vadim Linevich and Andrew Powell both became involved in the NASA-funded Student Space Exploration and Environmental Systems Laboratory (SSEESL) in Temple’s College of Engineering. The lab offers students a chance to work on diverse projects involving robotics, quad-copters, sub-orbital payload design and high altitude ballooning.

16 May 2013

Saab Successfully Demonstrates Skeldar V-200 Vertical Lift UAS Capabilities

Defense and security company Saab has verified a number of key capabilities of its Skeldar V-200 vertical lift UAS through flight campaigns at different sites in the US and Sweden demonstrating the system's performance for both land and sea based operations. A number of successful customer demonstration flights have also been conducted.

16 May 2013

Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces to Use Insitu Pacific’s ScanEagle UAS

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has delivered a ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Japan. This delivery means that the ScanEagle UAS is now ready for operational use by the Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF).

16 May 2013

Geologists Map New Oil Reserves Using Drones

Geologists have long used seismology on the bottom of the ocean or have been throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil. But now researchers at Centre for integrated petroleum research (CIPR), a joint venture between the University of Bergen (UiB) and Uni Research, have found a new preferred method – using drones to map new oil reserves from the air.

16 May 2013

Unmanned Combat Air System Successfully Catapulted from Aircraft Carrier

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy today launched a new chapter in the history of unmanned systems – carrier-capable unmanned aircraft – by successfully catapulting the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush(CVN-77).

15 May 2013

CDU Students Search for Gold at 2013 National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition

A crew of Charles Darwin University engineering students will face off against more than 20 university teams from across Australia and New Zealand in the search for gold as part of a robotics competition.

15 May 2013

Gray Eagle UAS Receives Raytheon’s Electronic Attack Payloads

Raytheon Company has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army's Networked Electronic Warfare, Remotely Operated (NERO) system. The payloads were delivered as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy NAVSEA-Crane in 2012. NERO is utilized on the Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS (Umanned Aircraft System) as an airborne electronic attack system capable of jamming enemy communications systems.

15 May 2013

LOBOT Technique Provides Accurate, Real-Time, 3-D Positions for Robotic Vehicles

A Wayne State University researcher understands that the three most important things about real estate also apply to small ground robotic vehicles: location, location, location.

15 May 2013

Kickstarter Campaign Launched for tim-E Robotic Alarm Clock

From the inventors of Bop It!™ and Perplexus, two of the most popular children’s toys on the market, comes tim-E (pronounced “Timmy”), a next generation alarm clock and bedside companion for iPhone and iPod.

15 May 2013