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EPFL Laboratories Work on Completely Automated Aerial Collision-Avoidance System

Will planes someday fly without pilots? Three EPFL laboratories (one belongs to the School of Computer and Communication Sciences), commissioned by Honeywell and operating under the auspices of EPFL’s Transportation Center, are working on this possibility by developing collision-prediction, avoidance, and real-time vision algorithms. The project is a formidable technological challenge.

28 Nov 2012

Consumer Drone Company Acquires Majority Share in EPFL Start-Up senseFly

The French company Parrot, world leader in wireless peripherals for mobile phones and already in the market for consumer drones, acquired for 5 million Swiss Francs a majority share in senseFly, a start-up from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL.

27 Nov 2012

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Photograph Risky Regions of the Ocean Floor

Underwater robots just got smarter. Engineers at Stanford and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have developed a system that allows autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to better anticipate obstacles in their path, enabling them to safely photograph even treacherous, distant reaches of the ocean floor.

27 Nov 2012

ESA’s Mars Orbiter Relays Rocknest3 ChemCam Images from NASA’s Curiosity Rover

For the first time, ESA’s Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet’s surface. The data included detailed images of ‘Rocknest3’ and were received by ESA’s deep-space antenna in Australia.

27 Nov 2012

Xilinx Introduces All Programmable Solutions for Industrial Automation Applications

Xilinx, Inc. today introduced new, All Programmable solutions for meeting the challenges of advanced motion control, real-time industrial networking, machine vision and a host of other next-generation industrial automation applications.

27 Nov 2012

Children with DCD Develop Motor Skills Using a Robot and 3D Virtual Reality Device

An Indiana University study in the Journal of Child Neurology proposes an innovative treatment for developmental coordination disorder, a potentially debilitating neurological disorder in which the development of a child's fine or gross motor skills, or both, is impaired.

27 Nov 2012

Carnegie Mellon University to Develop a Robotic System with High-Powered Lasers to Remove Coating from Aircrafts

Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Ogden Air Logistics Center 309 AMXG to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that uses high-powered lasers to remove coatings from fighter and cargo aircraft.

26 Nov 2012

Latest Alvey Robotics Material Handling Solutions by Intelligrated

Intelligrated®, a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, will showcase its latest Alvey® Robotics case packing, unpacking, palletizing and depalletizing solutions in booth #614 at Automate 2013, January 21-24 in Chicago.

From Honeywell Intelligrated 26 Nov 2012

NAO Becomes the Widely Used Humanoid Robot for Learning STEM

Last October, NAO was named the best robot for education as part of the "Robot Hall of Fame®" Competition organized by Carnegie Mellon.

23 Nov 2012

Stapleton Group’s Wireless Communications and Home Automation Portfolios Up for Sale

ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for auction wireless communications and home automation technologies from The Stapleton Group, Inc., which describe techniques for intruder detection security software; air monitoring, thermostat monitoring, and electrical power system load management devices for energy reduction; leak detection, bi-directional sensors, conformal repeater units and signal strength measurement devices; and animal monitoring and training methods. This portfolio will be included in the 17th ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on November 29, 2012, at The Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, California.

22 Nov 2012

JSC OGCC KazStroy Service Places Order for ABB Power Products

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $11 million, from JSC OGCC KazStroy Service, an EPC contractor, for high and medium voltage substation equipment that will facilitate power supply to a new Hydrocarbons production complex being built as part of the Atyrau refinery in Kazakhstan, and expected to be commissioned in 2013.

22 Nov 2012

Intravascular Robotics Provider Hansen Medical to Participate at Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

Hansen Medical, Inc, a global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced that President and CEO, Bruce Barclay, is scheduled to present at the 24th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference. The conference is being held November 27-28, 2012, at the New York Palace Hotel, in New York, NY. Hansen Medical is scheduled to present on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 22 Nov 2012

Volvo-Led European Project on Robotic Road Train

In car commercials every road is clear and curvy; every vista is framed by mountains and the sea. But in real life, driving is often a pain because you must glue your eyes to the surrounding traffic.

22 Nov 2012

Hughes Satellite-Based Airborne Communications Solutions for Unmanned Airborne Platforms

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) will showcase its highly innovative range of satellite-based airborne communications solutions at the 14th annual Global MilSatCom Conference and Exhibition, which will be held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre, London from 27-29 November 2012.

21 Nov 2012

NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Build Space-Based Air Pollutant Monitoring System

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is part of a team selected to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent for NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission.

From Ball Aerospace 20 Nov 2012

Robotics News

EPFL Laboratories Work on Completely Automated Aerial Collision-Avoidance System

Consumer Drone Company Acquires Majority Share in EPFL Start-Up senseFly

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Photograph Risky Regions of the Ocean Floor

ESA’s Mars Orbiter Relays Rocknest3 ChemCam Images from NASA’s Curiosity Rover

Xilinx Introduces All Programmable Solutions for Industrial Automation Applications

Children with DCD Develop Motor Skills Using a Robot and 3D Virtual Reality Device

Carnegie Mellon University to Develop a Robotic System with High-Powered Lasers to Remove Coating from Aircrafts

Latest Alvey Robotics Material Handling Solutions by Intelligrated

NAO Becomes the Widely Used Humanoid Robot for Learning STEM

Stapleton Group’s Wireless Communications and Home Automation Portfolios Up for Sale

JSC OGCC KazStroy Service Places Order for ABB Power Products

Intravascular Robotics Provider Hansen Medical to Participate at Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

Volvo-Led European Project on Robotic Road Train

Hughes Satellite-Based Airborne Communications Solutions for Unmanned Airborne Platforms

NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Build Space-Based Air Pollutant Monitoring System

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