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Remote Monitoring and Management Platform Developer LabTech Provides Integration with Intel vPro Technology

LabTech Software the only powerful, robust-featured remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform developed by a managed service provider (MSP) for managed service providers, today announced that it is providing enhanced integration with Intel vPro technology to better enable remote systems management and recovery, helping eliminate expensive onsite visits, increase technician productivity and minimize client downtime.

18 Jan 2013

US Department of Defense Awards Global Telesat $605,000 Contract for BiB Aerostat Systems

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAVs") and related technologies, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Global Telesat Corp. ("GTC"), has been awarded a $605,000 contract from the United States Department of Defense for a set of Blimp in a Box™ ("BiB") aerostat systems. The contract award includes on-location support for technical fact gathering, installation and training for the BiB systems.

18 Jan 2013

Innovation Challenge Unmanned Aircraft Competition to be Held in April 2013

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) of the United Arab Emirates have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate and explore ways to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in areas that build local capacity across various sectors in the UAE.

18 Jan 2013

MSU’s Robotic Fish Swims and Glides Long Distances

A high-tech robotic fish hatched at Michigan State University has a new look. A new skill. And a new name.

18 Jan 2013

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