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Independent-Living Solution for the Elderly on Samsung Mobile Tablets

Independa™ today announced that the Independa Angela™ social-engagement solution for the elderly is now available on Samsung Mobile Galaxy Tab™ 2 tablets, representing an industry first.

10 Jan 2013

AMC Health Awarded Silver Vendor Accreditation for Telemonitoring Services by Quintiles

AMC Health, a leading provider of telemonitoring technologies and services, has been awarded Silver vendor accreditation for pharmaceutical trials by Quintiles, the world's largest contract research organization. During the audit, no areas for improvement were identified. Silver is the highest status that Quintiles awards to new vendors.

10 Jan 2013

fischertechnik STEM Lab Focuses on Mechatronics and Robotics

The current push for improved STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) recognizes that students need project-based and real world approaches to learning. One of the most valuable tools teachers can employ is a hands-on STEM program with technology education tools to help foster excitement and retention among students. Tom White has created this program to assist Middle and High Schools to bring successful STEM education to students.

10 Jan 2013

New Humanoid Robot Mimics Expressions of a One-Year-Old Child

The world is getting a long-awaited first glimpse at a new humanoid robot in action mimicking the expressions of a one-year-old child. The robot will be used in studies on sensory-motor and social development – how babies “learn” to control their bodies and to interact with other people.

10 Jan 2013

CMU and Anglo American Partner to Develop Innovative Mining Robotics

Carnegie Mellon University has signed a five-year master agreement with one of the world's largest mining companies, London-based Anglo American PLC, to develop robotic technologies for mining.

10 Jan 2013

UAV for Navy's Triton Program Being Built by Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation is building a company-owned unmanned aircraft for use as a development and demonstration platform for at-sea surveillance under the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Triton program.

9 Jan 2013

Robotic Creations to be Demonstrated at Second Annual Cornell Cup

This spring, the best and the brightest among U.S. college engineering students will return to Walt Disney World to show off their creations at the second annual Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel.

9 Jan 2013

Griffon Subsidiary to Provide Multimode Maritime Radar System for Navy Fire Scout UAV

Northrop Grumman Corporation, under contract to the U.S. Navy, has selected Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, Long Island, N.Y., to provide a multimode maritime radar system for the Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle.

9 Jan 2013

New Reports on Global UAV Payload Market

UAVs represent a very active market within the defense industry, and recent trends are not likely to change that trajectory. The nomination of John Brennan to serve as head of the CIA represents – according to pundits – a reaffirmation of America's policy of using unmanned aerial vehicles as a cornerstone of its force projection and defense capabilities. Looming sequester cuts in military budgets do not seem likely to impact this burgeoning sector, and the overall market for UAVs and related products and services stands to grow significantly over the next decade.

9 Jan 2013

Robotic-Assisted Coronary Revascularization Successfully Conducted at DMC

The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) announced today that a team of heart specialists at its Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) has successfully conducted the Midwest's first-ever "robotic-assisted" coronary revascularization to relieve heart artery blockages. The successful implementation of the pioneering new treatment procedure – unique in Michigan and so far performed at only three institutions in the United States – means that DMC heart care patients now have access to the world's most advanced treatment method for relieving blockages in heart arteries, said CVI President Theodore L. Schreiber , M.D.

9 Jan 2013

Wynright Introduces Autonomous Robotic Truck UNloader for Warehouse Applications

Wynright Corporation, a leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems, today revealed it has added a new, patented Robotic Truck UNloader (RTU) to its extensive line of robotic solutions for warehouse and distribution center (DC) applications.

9 Jan 2013

BU Engineers Employ Artificial Intelligence to Create Smart Socket Lower-Limb Prosthetic

Approximately one in every 1,000 people in the UK is an amputee. Many lose their limbs as the result of tragic accidents or due to active military combat and for some amputees losing a limb can feel like losing their freedom.

9 Jan 2013

Robotics Company, MAKO Surgical Announces Operating Results for Fourth Quarter and Year End 2012

MAKO Surgical Corp., a medical device company that markets its RIO® Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic surgical platform, MAKOplasty® joint specific applications, and proprietary RESTORIS® implants that together enable orthopedic surgeons to consistently, reproducibly and precisely treat patient specific osteoarthritic disease, today announced its selected operating results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2012 in anticipation of its business update presentation at the 31st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 7:30 am PT.

8 Jan 2013

Remote Monitoring Solutions Provider Participates at Annual Generac Dealer Conference

OMNIMETRIX, LLC, an Acorn Energy company, is participating in the Annual Generac Dealer Conference and Vendor Showcase at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL, January 7-8, 2013. This invitation is the second for OMNIMETRIX, where Board Member and former Generac Dealer Owner, Andy Briggs , will be presenting two training sessions on how to "Increase Profits & Retain Customers with OMNIMETRIX Wireless Remote Monitoring".

8 Jan 2013

Northrop Grumman Supplies Two Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft to U.S. Air Force

Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed early delivery of two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. Global Hawk allows military commanders to receive high-resolution imagery, survey vast geographic regions and pinpoint targets on the ground.

8 Jan 2013

Robotics News

Independent-Living Solution for the Elderly on Samsung Mobile Tablets

AMC Health Awarded Silver Vendor Accreditation for Telemonitoring Services by Quintiles

fischertechnik STEM Lab Focuses on Mechatronics and Robotics

New Humanoid Robot Mimics Expressions of a One-Year-Old Child

CMU and Anglo American Partner to Develop Innovative Mining Robotics

UAV for Navy's Triton Program Being Built by Northrop Grumman

Robotic Creations to be Demonstrated at Second Annual Cornell Cup

Griffon Subsidiary to Provide Multimode Maritime Radar System for Navy Fire Scout UAV

New Reports on Global UAV Payload Market

Robotic-Assisted Coronary Revascularization Successfully Conducted at DMC

Wynright Introduces Autonomous Robotic Truck UNloader for Warehouse Applications

BU Engineers Employ Artificial Intelligence to Create Smart Socket Lower-Limb Prosthetic

Robotics Company, MAKO Surgical Announces Operating Results for Fourth Quarter and Year End 2012

Remote Monitoring Solutions Provider Participates at Annual Generac Dealer Conference

Northrop Grumman Supplies Two Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft to U.S. Air Force

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