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Partial Kidney Removal Using Robotic Surgery Leads to Better Overall Survival

For patients with kidney tumors, a new study shows the health and economic advantages to removing just the tumor as opposed to the entire kidney. Robotic surgery, including the daVinci Surgical System and Firefly fluorescence imaging that lights up kidney tumors, are among the latest techniques to make this possible.

12 Mar 2013

ESS Robotic Case Erector/Loader to be Integrated with Xyntek-Antares Track & Trace Solution

ESS Technologies, Inc. and Xyntek-Antares have partnered to develop a track & trace case packing solution to be demonstrated in booth #3188 at the upcoming Interphex NY conference and exhibition at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on April 23-25, 2013.

From Xyntek Inc. 12 Mar 2013

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Drone to Acquire Data over Gulf and South Texas

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will conduct the first mission over the Gulf of Mexico with their unmanned aircraft from Monday, March 11, through Friday, March 15.

12 Mar 2013

Hong Kong Adventist Oncology Center Offers CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery and TomoTherapy

Accuray Incorporated, announced today that Hong Kong Adventist Oncology Center, the first center locally to offer both the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery and TomoTherapy® Systems, hosted its official opening ceremony last week.

From Accuray Incorporated 12 Mar 2013

Fleet of Social Robots to Interact with Pediatric Patients

Introducing a fleet of social robots in a hospital, so that they can interact with children affected by cancer, will be the final outcome of a new international research project that Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) is participating in.

12 Mar 2013

BrewExpo America: Intelligrated to Highlight Scalable Automated Material Handling Solutions

Intelligrated®, a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, will showcase its suite of solutions for breweries in booth #5106 at BrewExpo America®, March 26-29, in Washington D.C.

From Honeywell Intelligrated 12 Mar 2013

Researchers Develop Cloud-Computing Platform for Robots

Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers - the giant server farms behind the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon - for robotics tasks and robot learning.

12 Mar 2013

Artificially Intelligent Robot Joins Gates for Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

In a speech Wednesday to an audience of computer science students, Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, offered his vision of how the computing revolution will dramatically improve human well-being in the next few decades.

11 Mar 2013

Global UAV Payload Market Forecast to Increase at 4.4% CAGR to $6.1 Billion by 2022

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The Global UAV Payload Market 2012-2022 - Market Size and Drivers: Market Profile

11 Mar 2013

Wyle Awarded Contract to Improve Naval Air Systems’ Unmanned Air Systems

Wyle has been awarded a three-year $24 million contract to provide reliability improvement, testing, technology insertion and life-cycle analysis for unmanned air systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance project and programs for the Naval Air Systems Command.

11 Mar 2013

LabTech CEO Named CRN 2013 Channel Chief

LabTech Software, the only powerful, robust-featured remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform developed by a managed service provider (MSP) for managed service providers, announced today that CEO Matt Nachtrab has been named one of UBM Tech Channel's CRN 2013 Channel Chiefs.

11 Mar 2013

Ricoh Merges Business Units for Security and Machine Vision Products

Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced the merger of two divisions and their product portfolios to improve the experience of customers who buy its business-to-business cameras and lenses.

11 Mar 2013

Mazor Robotics Reports First Australian Order for Renaissance Surgical Guidance System

Mazor Robotics Ltd., the developer of Renaissance™, an innovative surgical guidance system and its complementary products, today announced that LifeHealthcare, the Company’s distribution and marketing partner in Australia, has ordered its first Renaissance system.

From Medtronic 11 Mar 2013

Vanguard Defense to Exhibit ShadowHawk UAS at Stiletto Maritime Demonstration Program

Vanguard Defense Industries is pleased to announce that the ShadowHawk® Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has been selected by the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center to take part in the Stiletto Maritime Demonstration Program (SMDP).

8 Mar 2013

Middle Schoolers to View InTouch Health RP-7i Robot at Brainworks Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A robotic assistant will be a special guest at the March 11 Brainworks program for 130 seventh- and eighth-graders. Dependable, focused and able to perform tasks at any time, 24 hours a day, “Robot-Doc” has become a key member of the Neuroscience Critical Care Unit.

8 Mar 2013

Robotics News

Partial Kidney Removal Using Robotic Surgery Leads to Better Overall Survival

ESS Robotic Case Erector/Loader to be Integrated with Xyntek-Antares Track & Trace Solution

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Drone to Acquire Data over Gulf and South Texas

Hong Kong Adventist Oncology Center Offers CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery and TomoTherapy

Fleet of Social Robots to Interact with Pediatric Patients

BrewExpo America: Intelligrated to Highlight Scalable Automated Material Handling Solutions

Researchers Develop Cloud-Computing Platform for Robots

Artificially Intelligent Robot Joins Gates for Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

Global UAV Payload Market Forecast to Increase at 4.4% CAGR to $6.1 Billion by 2022

Wyle Awarded Contract to Improve Naval Air Systems’ Unmanned Air Systems

LabTech CEO Named CRN 2013 Channel Chief

Ricoh Merges Business Units for Security and Machine Vision Products

Mazor Robotics Reports First Australian Order for Renaissance Surgical Guidance System

Vanguard Defense to Exhibit ShadowHawk UAS at Stiletto Maritime Demonstration Program

Middle Schoolers to View InTouch Health RP-7i Robot at Brainworks Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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