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FIRST Robotics Competition Receives PTC’s Support

Continuing with its mission to provide every day opportunities for students to develop engineering skills, PTC, today announced its continued support of FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®).

4 Jan 2013

New Product Suppliers Join Rockwell Automation Encompass Program

Two new product suppliers in the Americas region have joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass third-party product referencing program.

4 Jan 2013

Opto 22 Introduces Network LED Dimmer for Automation Systems

Industrial automation manufacturer Opto 22 has announced the Network LED Dimmer, a compact, solid-state, and networkable LED dimmer that uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to control LED brightness (0-100%) for 9-30 VDC constant voltage LED lighting assemblies such as lamps, bulbs, strips, ropes, and bars.

4 Jan 2013

Kratos USS Division Awarded $6.1 Million Contract for Specialized Products

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Unmanned Systems Solutions (USS) division has recently been awarded contracts totaling $6.1 million to provide specialized products in support of certain National Security programs. The equipment is being produced in a secure Kratos manufacturing facility. No additional information related to these recent contract awards is being provided due to customer specific, program related and other sensitivities.

3 Jan 2013

Automated Systems Manufacturer Tennessee Rand Acquired by Lincoln Electric

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has acquired the privately-held automated systems and tooling manufacturer, Tennessee Rand, Inc.

3 Jan 2013

LG Introduces Redesigned Faster Robotic Vacuum

Complementing its other new Smart Appliances for 2013, LG Electronics (LG) announced its totally redesigned robotic vacuum, the LG HOM-BOT Square, with improved cleaning technologies and smart capabilities for easy cleaning on virtually any surface.

3 Jan 2013

C+EN Highlights Developments in Cyborgs in Annual Review

What were the most notable advances in the chemical world in 2012? Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society — the world's largest scientific society — considers this question in a package of cover stories on the year past in chemistry. It also provides a reality check on discoveries that seemed promising a decade ago.

3 Jan 2013

Robotic Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor-Dispersing Devices Effective Against Hospital Superbugs

Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs.

2 Jan 2013

Israel MOD Awards Elbit Systems Contracts for Unmanned Systems

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded various contracts by the Israel Ministry of Defense ("IMOD"), in a number of fields of activity for a total value of approximately $315 million.

2 Jan 2013

Ethical and Policy Dilemmas Facing Military Robotics

The Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly today released a 100+ page report on military human enhancements.

2 Jan 2013

ReconRobotics’ Micro-Robot Systems Sales Increase 50% in 2012

ReconRobotics announced today that its international headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland, has closed the year with strong sales of micro-robot systems to military and police users in Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Hungary and France, in addition to an unspecified country in the Middle East.

31 Dec 2012

Spiked Hopping Rovers to Explore Martian Moon Phobos

Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new heights.

31 Dec 2012

St. Joseph's Children's Hospital Performs Robot-Assisted Pediatric Urologic Surgery for Bilateral Obstruction

After 12-year-old Steven Kraguliac began experiencing bouts of pain in his right side, an ultrasound revealed that fluid was backing up into his kidneys as a result of a bilateral ureteral obstruction. His physician referred him to St. Joseph's Children's Hospital Pediatric Urologist Dr. Ethan Polsky , who specializes in pediatric urology surgery.

29 Dec 2012

CES 2013: Somfy to Showcase Motorization Solutions for Home Automation Systems

Somfy Systems, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of radio-controlled motors (Radio Technology Somfy® -- RTS) for interior and exterior window coverings, will have its motorization solutions featured in an interoperability display sponsored by Worthington Distribution at the Z-Wave Alliance Booth #20800 during the 2013 International CES.

28 Dec 2012

Rover-Themed Curiosity Explorer Badge to Help Unlock Scientific Curiosity

NASA and the mobile application Foursquare have teamed up to help the public unlock its scientific curiosity with a new rover-themed Curiosity Explorer badge.

28 Dec 2012