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New Market Research Report on mHealth and Home Monitoring

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: mHealth and Home Monitoring – 5th Edition

17 Jan 2013

Association for Advancing Automation Disappointed with 60 Minutes’ Portrayal of the Industry

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the global advocate for the automation industry, is disappointed in how 60 Minutes portrayed the industry in Sunday night's "March of the Machines" segment.

17 Jan 2013

Elbit Systems to Provide Small Unmanned Aircraft System Products to U.S. Army

Elbit Systems Ltd. ("Elbit Systems") announced today that Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, has been selected for award by the U.S. Army ACC-APG, Natick Contracting Division on behalf of the Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) Product Office.

17 Jan 2013

Universal Robots to Showcase Robotic Arms at Automate Show

Universal Robots' collaborative robots have opened up a new market for robotics in North America. The distributor list of the Danish robotic arms is rapidly expanding as resellers show the robots to end customers with production processes previously thought impossible to automate due to cost and complexity.

17 Jan 2013

RP-7 Robot ‘Telementors’ Nonexpert Nurses in Programming Stimulator Devices

With the rapidly expanding use of brain and spinal cord stimulation therapy (neuromodulation), new "remote presence" technologies may help to meet the demand for experts to perform stimulator programming, reports a study in the January issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

17 Jan 2013

International Space Station's Robotic Arm to Install BEAM Module on Tranquility Node

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology. NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration.

17 Jan 2013

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Prepares to Drill into Rock

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Laboratory mission.

16 Jan 2013

GTRI Researchers Develop Airborne Unmanned Sensor System

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing an airborne testing capability for sensors, communications devices and other airborne payloads. This aerial test bed, called the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS), is based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by Griffon Aerospace and modified by GTRI.

16 Jan 2013

Automate 2013: Teledyne DALSA to Highlight Latest Machine Vision Solutions

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, will showcase its latest cameras and machine vision solutions at Automate 2013 in Chicago, Illinois January 21-24, 2013. Automate is the largest solutions-based exhibition of automation technologies in North America and showcases the full spectrum of automation technologies and solutions for a broad array of industries.

16 Jan 2013

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Honors Fuzzy Logic Inventor

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) category has been granted in this fifth edition to the electrical engineer Lotfi A. Zadeh , "for the invention and development of fuzzy logic." This "revolutionary" breakthrough, affirms the jury in its citation, has enabled machines to work with imprecise concepts, in the same way humans do, and thus secure more efficient results more aligned with reality. In the last fifty years, this methodology has generated over 50,000 patents in Japan and the U.S. alone.

16 Jan 2013

Student Computer Codes Steer Satellites on the International Space Station

What’s it like to operate satellites 260 miles above the Earth’s surface? Now more than 200 high-school students can tell you from experience — and add the engineering feat to their college applications.

16 Jan 2013

Hansen Medical to Showcase Magellan Robotic System at International Endovascular Therapy Symposium

Hansen Medical, Inc., a global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced it will exhibit its Magellan™ Robotic System at the 25th Annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET), from January 19-23 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel in Miami, FL. The Company will be exhibiting the Magellan Robotic System at Booth 509.

From Auris Surgical Robotics Inc. 16 Jan 2013

Roboteq Introduces Magnetic Sensor to Steer Automatic Guided Vehicles

Roboteq, Inc. introduces a magnetic guide sensor capable of detecting and reporting the position of a magnetic field along its horizontal axis. The sensor is intended for line following robotic applications, using adhesive magnetic tape to form a track guide on the floor.

From Roboteq, Inc. 11 Jan 2013

Bluefin Robotics Reports Production of Over 1,000,000 Wh of Subsea Batteries

Bluefin Robotics, a leading provider of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related subsea technologies, announced that as of this month the company's in-house battery group has produced over 1,000,000 watt-hours of subsea batteries. The announcement comes on the heels of the company receiving several orders for AUVs, vehicle power upgrades, and customized power systems for the commercial oil and gas market.

11 Jan 2013

NASA to Test Robotic Refueling Mission aboard the International Space Station

In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM aboard the International Space Station. The investigation may one day substantially impact the many satellites that deliver products Americans rely upon daily, such as weather reports, cell phones and television news.

11 Jan 2013