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
Tecnalia Research & Innovation will play a key role in transforming the European industry by integrating the capabilities of the robot Hiro, Japan’s most protected national heritage.
By Kalwinder Kaur
22 May 2012
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2012, has incorporated a new conference stream dedicated to the advances in Liquid Handling and Robotics, as one of the eight conference streams, contributi...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt hosts On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, the Second International Workshop, during which NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results till date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) at Maryland from May 30 to 31, 2012.
By Kalwinder Kaur
21 May 2012
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Ingolf Tuerk, MD and his team’s latest achievement marks the 1,000th robotic-assisted prostatectomy. Within three years, this rare target was achieved by Tuerk, the chief of Urology and director of the Robotic-assisted Surgery Program St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
By Kalwinder Kaur
21 May 2012
South Carolina hospital deploys Swisslog RoboCourier autonomous mobile robot for automated laboratory transport.
By Nick Gilbert
19 May 2012
Hosted by the graphics giant NVIDIA, the four-day third ‘GPU Technology Conference’ (GTC) concludes with a fabulous event in San Jose.
By Kalwinder Kaur
19 May 2012
Numerex, a single source supplier of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, recently declared that the company has created a comprehensive Device-Network-Application (DNA) solution that enables remote cellular monitoring of MicroMed Cardiovascular’s HeartAssist5 System.
By Kalwinder Kaur
19 May 2012
Prostate cancer is the recurrent non-skin cancer in the U.S., while radical prostatectomy has been the preferred therapeutic option for most.
By Nick Gilbert
18 May 2012
A progressing clinical trial, partly funded by the National Institutes of Health, is investigating the potential and safety of BrainGate neural interface system. This investigational device uses brain-computer interface (BCI) to intellectually control robotics and other assistive technologies.
By Kalwinder Kaur
18 May 2012