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NASA Researchers Walk the Outcrop with Opportunity Mars Rover

The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout.

5 Dec 2012

Kratos' Firejet Target Drone Supports Patriot Weapon System Live Fire Exercises

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its subsidiary, Composite Engineering Inc. (CEI), successfully supported Patriot Weapon System live fire exercises for the Hellenic Air Defense Forces on November 17, 2012 at the NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) located on the Greek island of Crete.

5 Dec 2012

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Manned/Unmanned Operations Capability Development Lab Opened in Huntsville

Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter, Textron Inc. companies, announced today the opening of the Textron Systems Integration and Collaboration Lab and Bell Helicopter/AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Manned/Unmanned Operations (MUMO) Capability Development Lab. Based at Textron Systems' Huntsville, Ala., location, these labs combine live data feeds, high-fidelity simulated environments and field equipment to enable rapid system integration and testing, and the demonstration and proof of operational concepts.

5 Dec 2012

NASA Plans Multi-Year Mars Program with New Robotic Science Rover

Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. This announcement affirms the agency's commitment to a bold exploration program that meets our nation's scientific and human exploration objectives.

5 Dec 2012

Hollysys Subsidiary Wins Signaling System Project in Singapore

Hollysys Automation Technologies, Ltd. ("Hollysys" or the "Company"), a leading provider of automation and control technologies and applications in China, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Concord Corporation Pte. Ltd. ("Concord") signed a significant contract with Thales Solutions Asia Pte Ltd ("Thales") to provide design, installation, testing & commission for replacement of existing signaling systems of North-South and East-West lines ("NSEWL") and new signaling systems of Tuas West Extension line (TWEL) in Singapore, the contract is valued at approximately USD $19.14 million.

4 Dec 2012

Preventice BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System to be Commercially Available in Early 2013

Preventice, Inc. announced today that its BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System (BodyGuardian RMS) will be commercially available in early 2013. Meanwhile, clinical trials are underway in the United States and Europe to quantify the impact of the BodyGuardian RMS on clinical care delivery. Preventice is demonstrating the BodyGuardian RMS this week at the mHealth Summit, one of the mobile health technology industry's leading conferences, in Washington, D.C., December 3-5, 2012.

4 Dec 2012

Restoration Robotics Reports First Use of ARTAS Hair Transplantation System in Minneapolis

Restoration Robotics, Inc. today announced the first use of its revolutionary ARTAS® System in Minneapolis by Dr. Ron Shapiro of Shapiro Medical Group. The ARTAS System – the first and only FDA cleared physician controlled, computer-assisted technology for harvesting follicular units directly from the scalp – offers hair restoration physicians and patients unprecedented levels of safety, efficacy, and patient comfort.

4 Dec 2012

Ideal Life Selects Orange for Global Expansion of Health Monitoring Services

At the 2012 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., Toronto-based remote health provider Ideal Life announced that it has chosen Orange Business Services to expand its remote monitoring solutions for wellness and chronic conditions to an international audience. Orange will provide seamless machine to machine (M2M) wireless connectivity for Ideal Life in Europe and Latin America, promoting comprehensive remote care to the home and preventing non-critical re-admissions of patients to hospitals.

4 Dec 2012

AeroVironment, CybAero Partner to Develop Tier II VTOL Unmanned Aircraft System

AeroVironment, Inc. today announced it has entered into a strategic relationship with Sweden-based CybAero AB to develop and distribute a Tier II vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system in response to unmet requirements from multiple customers. The relationship gives AeroVironment exclusive rights to provide CybAero AB systems to United States customers and to government customers in NATO and other countries.

From AeroVironment, Inc. 4 Dec 2012

Curiosity Rover Performs Analysis of Martian Soil

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingredients, showed up in samples Curiosity's arm delivered to an analytical laboratory inside the rover.

4 Dec 2012

Deceptive Robot Lures Predator Robot

Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive each other. The research is funded by the Office of Naval Research and is led by Professor Ronald Arkin, who suggests the applications could be implemented by the military in the future. The research is highlighted in the November/December 2012 edition of IEEE Intelligent Systems.

4 Dec 2012

Peking University Team Victorious in Three Events at China Robot Competition

The China Robot Competition 2012 was held at Nanjing University of Technology from November 16 to 18, 2012. This competition consists of 10 leagues (including Underwater Robot, Dancing robot, Standard Platform, etc.) and 31 events.

3 Dec 2012

nEUROn Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Stealth Technology Demonstrator Completes Maiden Flight

Today, the nEUROn, Europe's unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) stealth technology demonstrator, successfully completed its maiden flight from the Dassault Aviation company's flight test base in Istres, in collaboration with the flight test personnel of the French defense procurement agency (DGA).

3 Dec 2012

MIT Researchers Develop Reconfigurable Robot

The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable.

1 Dec 2012

Samsung Mobile Joins Forces with Preventice on BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile) and Preventice™, a leading developer of mobile health solutions and remote monitoring systems, announced today that Samsung will provide mobile phones for the new BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System (RMS)™ from Preventice. Preventice recently announced its receipt of 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the BodyGuardian RMS, allowing Preventice to market and sell BodyGuardian to hospitals and clinics for use in detecting and monitoring non-lethal cardiac arrhythmias for ambulatory patients.

1 Dec 2012

Robotics News

NASA Researchers Walk the Outcrop with Opportunity Mars Rover

Kratos' Firejet Target Drone Supports Patriot Weapon System Live Fire Exercises

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Manned/Unmanned Operations Capability Development Lab Opened in Huntsville

NASA Plans Multi-Year Mars Program with New Robotic Science Rover

Hollysys Subsidiary Wins Signaling System Project in Singapore

Preventice BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System to be Commercially Available in Early 2013

Restoration Robotics Reports First Use of ARTAS Hair Transplantation System in Minneapolis

Ideal Life Selects Orange for Global Expansion of Health Monitoring Services

AeroVironment, CybAero Partner to Develop Tier II VTOL Unmanned Aircraft System

Curiosity Rover Performs Analysis of Martian Soil

Deceptive Robot Lures Predator Robot

Peking University Team Victorious in Three Events at China Robot Competition

nEUROn Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Stealth Technology Demonstrator Completes Maiden Flight

MIT Researchers Develop Reconfigurable Robot

Samsung Mobile Joins Forces with Preventice on BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System

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