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Innovative Stepper Motor Controller for Smaller Precision Automation Equipment

Precision movement and positioning systems used in industries such as automated manufacturing and pharmaceutical production can be quieter, smaller, lighter, simpler and more efficient using the advanced single-chip digital motion controllers announced today by STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the world's number one supplier of standard ICs for industrial applications.

From STMicroelectronics 14 Nov 2012

Siemens Plans to Shift Focus on Automation Technology for Water Business

Siemens has decided to reorganize its activities in the water business. The company intends to focus in the future on automation and drive solutions for the control of water applications for municipalities and industry. The Business Unit known as Siemens Water Technologies, which offers solutions for municipal and industrial water purification and wastewater treatment, is to be sold along with the corresponding service activities.

From Siemens AG 9 Nov 2012

NASA, ESA to Control an Educational Rover Using Experimental Interplanetary Internet

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transmit messages and demonstrate technology that one day may enable Internet-like communications with space vehicles and support habitats or infrastructure on another planet.

9 Nov 2012

Siemens Announces Acquisition of Mechatronic Simulation Provider

Siemens expands its portfolio of industry software by acquiring LMS International NV (Leuven, Belgium), a leading provider of test and mechatronic simulation for complex products. "The mechatronic simulation will become more and more important for intelligent and competitive product development and production processes.

From Siemens AG 9 Nov 2012

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Team Competes for DARPA Robotics Challenge

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is the only foreign university team (on Track B) competing for the prestigious U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge.

9 Nov 2012

Annual Automation Fair Event Allows Attendees to Experience Latest Innovations

The City of Brotherly Love has become the temporary center of the manufacturing world this week as Rockwell Automation hosts its 21st annual Automation Fair event. The event opened today to more than 9,200 manufacturing business leaders, industry analysts, and technology and service providers from around the world at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

From Rockwell Automation, Inc. 8 Nov 2012

Robotics Innovator Quantum International to Participate in China International Industry Fair

Quantum International Corp. (OTCBB:QUAN) will be on hand this week when an invasion of high-tech robots descends upon Shanghai, China, for the 14th China International Industry Fair.

8 Nov 2012

First NavioPFS Robotic System-Assisted Unicondylar Knee Replacement Surgery Completed in UK

Blue Belt Technologies, Inc. announced the first NavioPFS™ unicondylar knee replacement (UKR) procedure performed in the United Kingdom, completed on October 26, 2012 by Mr. Alberto Gregori at Hairmyres Hospital in Scotland.

8 Nov 2012

Indiana University Bloomington Researchers Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge

Research Projects Agency to develop robots that can execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments. The contest was inspired by the "Fukushima 50," the men who stayed behind at the Japanese plant to work to avert a nuclear meltdown following the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

8 Nov 2012

Barrett Technology Supplies Robotnik Summit XL Mobile Vehicles to US Navy

The United States Navy has ordered three Robotnik Summit XL mobile platforms from Barrett Technology, in Cambridge, MA, USA. These compact autonomous vehicles are unique because of their special triple combination of (1) independent suspension, (2) independent drives, and (3) omni-directional treads at each of its wheels, enabling unmatched speed and agility.

8 Nov 2012

New Book on Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Medical robotics: Minimally invasive surgery" to their offering.

7 Nov 2012

Molex to Showcase Connectivity Solutions and Critical Components at Automation Fair 2012

Molex Incorporated announces it will showcase a wide range of its Brad® connectivity and communications solutions and Woodhead® electrical products at Automation Fair 2012 in Philadelphia, PA, November 7-8, Molex booth 1417.

From Molex 7 Nov 2012

Boomerang Systems to Provide RoboticValet Parking System to BrickellHouse Development

Boomerang Systems, Inc., (OTCQB: BMER) a leading designer and manufacturer of automated robotic parking and self storage systems, announced today that it has executed an agreement to provide 480 parking spaces via its innovative RoboticValet™ Parking System to the BrickellHouse development in Miami, Fl.

7 Nov 2012

The Detrimental Impact of Unmanned Drones

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, communities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East are being watched. With armed unmanned drones making regular surveillance rounds, civilians in these regions are perpetually reminded that their lives are not private.

7 Nov 2012

Northrop Grumman Maximizes Robotics and Automation to Reduce F-35 Center Fuselage Program Costs

The Royal Australian Air Force's Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Geoff Brown, met Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) executives during a visit to the company's F-35 Lightning II production facility in Palmdale on Nov. 2. As part of his visit, Brown received an update on the F-35 program and observed the first F-35 center fuselage being manufactured at Palmdale for the Royal Australian Air Force as part of the low-rate initial production Lot 6.

6 Nov 2012

Robotics News

Innovative Stepper Motor Controller for Smaller Precision Automation Equipment

Siemens Plans to Shift Focus on Automation Technology for Water Business

NASA, ESA to Control an Educational Rover Using Experimental Interplanetary Internet

Siemens Announces Acquisition of Mechatronic Simulation Provider

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Team Competes for DARPA Robotics Challenge

Annual Automation Fair Event Allows Attendees to Experience Latest Innovations

Robotics Innovator Quantum International to Participate in China International Industry Fair

First NavioPFS Robotic System-Assisted Unicondylar Knee Replacement Surgery Completed in UK

Indiana University Bloomington Researchers Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge

Barrett Technology Supplies Robotnik Summit XL Mobile Vehicles to US Navy

New Book on Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Molex to Showcase Connectivity Solutions and Critical Components at Automation Fair 2012

Boomerang Systems to Provide RoboticValet Parking System to BrickellHouse Development

The Detrimental Impact of Unmanned Drones

Northrop Grumman Maximizes Robotics and Automation to Reduce F-35 Center Fuselage Program Costs

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