NYU Langone Medical Center’s team of urological surgeons conducted robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy in New York. Using high definition satellite, this New York–based surgical procedure was shared visually with over 400 participants of American Urological Association’s (AUA) 2012 Annual Meeting, earlier this week in Atlanta.
By Kalwinder Kaur
25 May 2012
Insitu recently declared that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has achieved over 600,000 combat flight hours. Also, it has maintained a 99 % mission-readiness rate.
By Kalwinder Kaur
25 May 2012
Summa Health System made a surgical advancement marking the successful achievement of new single-site robotic gallbladder surgery for two patients at its Summa Akron City Hospital facility. This surgery required small, single incision in belly buttons.
By Kalwinder Kaur
24 May 2012
Autodesk, an innovator in 3D design, entertainment and engineering software, has declared that Autodesk Digital Prototyping software has been adopted by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) in order to design electrical controls for industrial robots.
By Kalwinder Kaur
24 May 2012
Adept Technology, a supplier of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions declares that it will demonstrate its Adept ePLC Connect solutions at the AUTOMATICA show in Munich, Germany next week at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre.
By Kalwinder Kaur
24 May 2012
Elbit Systems recently declared that it has achieved contract from a European customer, which is worth $160 M.
By Nick Gilbert
24 May 2012
In association with NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., the students of Academy of Art University Industrial Design designed a user interface during this semester.
By Nick Gilbert
24 May 2012
AeroVironment unveils Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft system in addition to declaring that it has been certified by the U.S. Air Force to implement in the Battlefield Air Targeting Micro Air Vehicle (BATMAV) program.
Report analysis from Visiongain states that due to the growing global demands for UAVs, followed by the development of formalised pilot and sensor operator training and simulation apparatus, the UAV flight training and simulation market will attain a value of $451.9 M in 2012.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 May 2012
Quantum International has been making efforts to promote commercial availability of products based on robotic innovation. This budding robotics company has been investigating novel opportunities to reduce the development timeline for certain outstanding advances in robotics.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 May 2012
Health Robotics recently declared that it has been honored with the most coveted INDUSTRIESPREIS 2012 Award for its innovative i.v.STATION Robot. The award was presented during Germany's Hannover Messe, a technology trade fair. This latest award is successive to the 5th Annual Club Meccatronica Prize achieved by Health Robotics in 2011.
By Nick Gilbert
23 May 2012
Established by inventor Dean Kamen, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is a not-for-profit organization that encourages youth involved in science and technology. It declares that FIRST robotics teams who participate in the FIRST series of robotics programs will receive Graduation Grants.
By Nick Gilbert
23 May 2012
Cornell Personal Robotics Lab researchers have programmed a robot to navigate across a room, followed by detecting the objects and bringing them to their actual location.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 May 2012
The Comau spot welding machine consists of a welding gun combined with a flange linked directly to a robot that contributes to a light and compact product that can withstand high payload. The automotive industry considers this machine to be a suitable spot welding system for various applications.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 May 2012
Cyprus has been judged as an innovation follower as per the Innovation Scoreboard of the European Commission along with countries such as the UK and France, with innovation performance levels same as the EU-27 average. This is significant for a country with below a million population, which became a part of the EU in 2004 and designed its first research system after University of Cyprus establishment in 1992.
By Kalwinder Kaur
23 May 2012