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Chalmers Develops Implantable Robotic Arm Controlled by Thoughts

The world’s first implantable robotic arm controlled by thoughts is being developed by Chalmers researcher Max Ortiz Catalan. The first operations on patients will take place this winter.

28 Nov 2012

Galileo Group Completes UAV Flights for NASA Environmental Project

Galileo Group, Inc., announced today that it has completed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations and hyperspectral data collections for a series of missions supporting a NASA sponsored project to map sea grass beds and coral reefs in the Florida keys.

28 Nov 2012

New iPad App Shows How Robots Are Becoming Reality

Robots have long captured our imagination. Now a new iPad app will show how robots are becoming reality.

28 Nov 2012

New Report on Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Defense and Security

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Defense and Security: Global Markets and Technologies Outlook - 2013-2020" report to their offering.

28 Nov 2012

Siemens Launches Simatic S7-1500 Controllers for Medium to High-End Machine and Plant Automation

With the launch of Simatic S7-1500, the Siemens Industry Automation division is introducing a controller family of the next generation for medium to high-end machine and plant automation.

28 Nov 2012

Lockheed Martin Develops Portable Military Defense Laser System against Unmanned Aerial Systems

Lockheed Martin today announced that it has successfully demonstrated a portable, ground-based military laser system in a series of tests against representative airborne targets.

28 Nov 2012

Non-Invasive Robotic Device Delivers Radiotherapy for Eye Disease

The radiotherapy is delivered by a non-invasive robotic device called IRay® Radiotherapy System which uses low-level radiation, similar to a dental x-ray. Patients treated with the IRay device sit at the machine with their chin on a chin rest.

28 Nov 2012

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

Robotics News

Chalmers Develops Implantable Robotic Arm Controlled by Thoughts

Galileo Group Completes UAV Flights for NASA Environmental Project

New iPad App Shows How Robots Are Becoming Reality

New Report on Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Defense and Security

Siemens Launches Simatic S7-1500 Controllers for Medium to High-End Machine and Plant Automation

Lockheed Martin Develops Portable Military Defense Laser System against Unmanned Aerial Systems

Non-Invasive Robotic Device Delivers Radiotherapy for Eye Disease

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

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