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Drones Become a Symbol for End of Golden Age of Privacy

The problem with the ongoing backlash by U.S. privacy advocates against drones is that drones aren’t really the problem, argues ASU’s Brad Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics and founding chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security.

7 May 2013

Study Compares Outcomes between Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy and ORP

The volume of cases performed at an institution each year has a direct effect on the outcome of surgical procedures, and should always be considered when looking at the benefits of a technique, according to a team of researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

7 May 2013

Liquid Robotics’ Hybrid Wave and Solar Propelled Unmanned Surface Vehicle to be Showcased at IMDEX 2013

WHO: Liquid Robotics, a global ocean data services provider and developer of the world's first wave and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles, with global headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

From Liquid Robotics 7 May 2013

Three Different Teaching Methods Best for Training in Robotic Surgery

By developing a new way to compare techniques for teaching robotic surgery, doctors at The Methodist Hospital and the University of Southern California report in an upcoming issue of the British Journal of Urology International that surgeons training in robotic surgery learned best when three different teaching methods were used.

7 May 2013

Media Invited for NASA’s Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

7 May 2013

Home-Exploring Robot Butler Discovers Objects on its Own

A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it — an object’s location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted — a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.

7 May 2013

Northrop Grumman, ADASI and AUVSI Honor Winners of UAV Innovation Challenge Flying Competition

Northrop Grumman Corporation presented awards to the winning teams of engineering students from the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) following the two-day Innovation Challenge flying competition for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) held April 23-24 in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).

6 May 2013

New Report on Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 2013-2023" report to their offering.

6 May 2013

Safe and Environmentally Friendly Robotic Lawn Mower

The SmartMow Robot Lawn Mower is a safe, environmentally friendly, affordable solution to maintaining your lawn is designed to save kids from lawn mower injuries.

6 May 2013

Global Articulated Robots Market Forecast to Reach $24.26 Billion by 2016

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Articulated Robot Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.

6 May 2013

Several VEX Robotics Tournaments in Arizona Receive Microchip Sponsorship

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced support of several VEX® robotics tournaments in Arizona.

6 May 2013

New Report on Global SCARA Robot Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global SCARA Robot Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.

4 May 2013

SonaCare to Introduce HIFU Surgical Ablation System with Robotic Laparoscopic Probes

SonaCare Medical, a leader in minimally invasive high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology, announced today that it will launch the FDA-Cleared Sonatherm® HIFU Surgical Ablation System at the the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA), in San Diego, May 4-8, 2013 (booth #3611).

4 May 2013

Boise State Radar System Part of NASA’s Greenland Rover Robotic Mission

The same Boise State University technology used this year to measure snow accumulation and melt at Bogus Basin is on its way to Greenland to help answer questions about that country’s massive ice sheets.

4 May 2013

Satellites and Underwater Robots Track Atlantic Sturgeons

More than a century ago, an estimated 180,000 female Atlantic sturgeon arrived from the coast in the spring to spawn in the Delaware River and fishermen sought their caviar as a lucrative export to Europe. Overfishing contributed to steep population declines, however, and today numbers have dwindled to fewer than 300 adults.

4 May 2013