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Education Sector Customer Awards Security System Installation Contract to Kratos

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that it has received a contract award with a potential value of $5 million to deploy a specialty security system that includes surveillance and access control security elements for an existing Kratos customer.

24 Dec 2012

Lockheed Martin Announces Asset Acquisition of Software Provider for Unmanned Systems

Lockheed Martin announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of CDL Systems Ltd., a software engineering firm that specializes in the development and licensing of vehicle control station software for unmanned systems. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed and are not material to Lockheed Martin.

24 Dec 2012

Cavotec Wins Major Order for Moormaster Automated Mooring Technology in Netherlands

Global engineering group Cavotec has won a breakthrough order for its innovative MoorMaster automated mooring technology in the Netherlands – the first in the country – at a frequent-use passenger ferry berth operated by private ferry company TESO.

24 Dec 2012

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Successfully Completes Transoral Robotic Surgery

Leonidas Hill recently made history at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, when the 5-year-old became the first pediatric patient in the western United States to undergo transoral robotic surgery (TORS) - a minimally invasive surgery performed with the help of a robot - to repair a rare congenital condition known as a laryngeal cleft.

24 Dec 2012

FLIR Systems Acquires Home Security Video Surveillance System Provider

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of Lorex Technology Inc. for $1.32 per share, representing an aggregate purchase price of $60 million.

21 Dec 2012

NASA’s Langley Research Center Celebrates Aerospace Accomplishments

Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center are celebrating a year of aerospace accomplishments that took their work not only into the skies, but also on to another planet. Here are some of the highlights for 2012

21 Dec 2012

Dragonfly Study Provides Model System for Robotic Vision

In a discovery that may prove important for cognitive science, our understanding of nature and applications for robot vision, researchers at the University of Adelaide have found evidence that the dragonfly is capable of higher-level thought processes when hunting its prey.

21 Dec 2012

Robotics and Virtual Reality Hold Potential to Advance Neurosurgery

Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, according to a special supplement to Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

21 Dec 2012

Medrobotics Announces Completion of Series D Financing

Medrobotics Corp., an emerging medical robotics company developing the innovative Flex™ Robotic System, announced today the conversion of notes totaling $33.6 Million purchased through recent financings into Series D Preferred Stock.

21 Dec 2012

Rescue Robotics Pioneer Delivers Speech at NEDO

Dr. Robin Murphy, a pioneer in the area of rescue robotics, spoke to the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Dec. 11 in Tokyo.

21 Dec 2012

Bionic Suit Provides Hope to Wheelchair-Bound Individuals

After transferring himself from a wheelchair into a robotic suit, onlookers held their breath with excitement as they watched 27-year-old Aaron Bloom grip the handles of specially designed crutches, raise to his full height, and walk at Huntington Memorial Hospital's Outpatient Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday.

21 Dec 2012

New Remote Management Platform from KIOSK Information Systems

KIOSK Information Systems (KIOSK) announces its’ latest release of KIOSK CORE, providing new advances in kiosk network management software.

21 Dec 2012

Research Report on Global Automated Test Equipment Market

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share and Forecast, 2012 - 2018", the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) market was valued at USD 3.54 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 4.36 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 2.88% from 2012 to 2018.

20 Dec 2012

ON Semiconductor Launches Stepper Motor Driver IC for Office Automation Electronics

ON Semiconductor, driving innovation in energy efficiency, has introduced the LV8702V, a new stepper motor driver IC that delivers significantly improved efficiency versus existing products on the market. The device has been specifically designed for office automation equipment applications such as copiers, scanners and multi-function printers.

20 Dec 2012

Significant Growth in Sample Volumes Pushes Biobanks toward Automation

Every year, nearly 100 million samples are added to biobanks worldwide. Over 1500 bio repositories exist today and efforts are underway to automate the various sample handling and compound storage processes involved in biobanking.

20 Dec 2012

Robotics News

Education Sector Customer Awards Security System Installation Contract to Kratos

Lockheed Martin Announces Asset Acquisition of Software Provider for Unmanned Systems

Cavotec Wins Major Order for Moormaster Automated Mooring Technology in Netherlands

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Successfully Completes Transoral Robotic Surgery

FLIR Systems Acquires Home Security Video Surveillance System Provider

NASA’s Langley Research Center Celebrates Aerospace Accomplishments

Dragonfly Study Provides Model System for Robotic Vision

Robotics and Virtual Reality Hold Potential to Advance Neurosurgery

Medrobotics Announces Completion of Series D Financing

Rescue Robotics Pioneer Delivers Speech at NEDO

Bionic Suit Provides Hope to Wheelchair-Bound Individuals

New Remote Management Platform from KIOSK Information Systems

Research Report on Global Automated Test Equipment Market

ON Semiconductor Launches Stepper Motor Driver IC for Office Automation Electronics

Significant Growth in Sample Volumes Pushes Biobanks toward Automation

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The WHO Launches Major Global Initiative to Set Unified Standards for AI in Healthcare

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Robotics in Microscopy: Key Innovations in Imaging, Diagnostics, and Drug Delivery

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