SES has recently signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman for providing satellite capacity and services for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system. AGS will work under NATO command and will be a key data source for NATO's system for Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR).
By Kalwinder Kaur
17 Jul 2012
In the last few years, Navy scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for minesweeping and other risky underwater missions. The ultimate goal is to design completely autonomous robots that can navigate and map cloudy underwater environments— without any prior knowledge of those environments — and detect mines as small as an iPod.
Reportlinker has declared the availability of a new market research report titled “Personal & Professional Service Robotics Market – Global Forecast & Assessment by Applications & Geography (2012 – 2017)”.
By Nick Gilbert
16 Jul 2012
Following last-week’s presentation of new ideas at the Shanghai International Robot Show, Quantum International, a robotics company, will carry out discussions with Chinese robotics innovators.
By Nick Gilbert
16 Jul 2012
Over the past 10 years, robotically-assisted surgery has become more popular. Unlike the assumption that robotic surgical procedure may not lead to retaining foreign objects within the patient’s body, ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) informed that foreign objects may sometimes be retained even during robotic surgical procedure.
By Nick Gilbert
16 Jul 2012
Blue Belt Technologies declared the first clinical use of the NavioPFS system in a Unicompartmental Knee Replacement (UKR). This novel system has its first use in the knee replacement surgery performed by Professor Johan Bellemans on July 10, 2012 at the University Hospital at Pellenberg, Belgium.
By Kalwinder Kaur
16 Jul 2012
A newly-developed cost-effective device enables individuals affected with spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s, amputees, multiple Sclerosis, or muscular dystrophy to interact with their computers and surroundings through their eyes.
By Kalwinder Kaur
16 Jul 2012
The application of robot submarines for mapping and monitoring the seas across the UK have been targeted by two projects. These projects have received £720,000 in funding. As part of investigation, this initiative will collect data regarding future government policy on the protection of the marine environment.
By Kalwinder Kaur
16 Jul 2012
Sterling Anderson, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Karl Iagnemma, MIT Robotic Mobility Group’s principal research scientist have developed a new semiautonomous safety system.
By Kalwinder Kaur
16 Jul 2012
The winner of the competition to design and name the livery for a novel remotely operated aircraft designed by the University of Southampton, has been announced by Blue Peter as Izzy Bennett, 11 from Exeter. Izzy suggested the name ‘iflyer’ and the winning graphic design and was awarded a Blue Peter badge and replica plane by Barney Harwood, Blue Peter presenter.
By Kalwinder Kaur
16 Jul 2012
Quantum International declared that it has started due diligence toward a definitive contract with the renowned Warsaw, Poland-based Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP). The company is happy over this new initiative and feels impressed by what it has discovered.
By Kalwinder Kaur
13 Jul 2012
The Automate 2013 Show and Conference is scheduled to take place from January 21to 24 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago. It will demonstrate as well as provide access to practical solutions for automation.
By Kalwinder Kaur
13 Jul 2012
The Defense Department declared that the U.S. Army has presented Poway-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems with a $411 M government contract. Under the terms of this contract, the company will deliver 29 Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicles to the U.S Army.
By Nick Gilbert
13 Jul 2012
Reportlinker has declared that a new market research report titled ‘Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Market to 2017 - Chronic Disease Prevalence and Government Curbs on Hospital Spending to Drive the Market’ has been added to its catalogue.
By Kalwinder Kaur
13 Jul 2012
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and ReconRobotics have entered into a new partnership to promote intelligence advancement to miniature robots.
By Nick Gilbert
13 Jul 2012