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Indiana Chamber of Commerce Honors Automation Giant Amatrol

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has selected Amatrol as Indiana’s Small Business of the Year. Amatrol was selected from several nominee companies around the state with less than 250 employees.

20 Jan 2011

Researchers Develop Robotic Elephant to Help Autistic Children

Researchers at the Vrije University have built Probo, a robotic elephant for communicating with autistic children.

20 Jan 2011

Linley Valley Deploys Pork Cutting Robot

Linley Valley's Meat and Livestock division has deployed a robot for cutting pork. This is the first ever pork cutting robot in Australia and is guided by a laser beam.

20 Jan 2011

Researchers Develop Automated Wheelchair

Scientists at the Florida State University College of Engineering are working on developing a technology to identify tough terrain and modify control settings of an electric-driven wheelchair.

20 Jan 2011

48th Design Automation Conference to Include User Track Forum

The 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC), an exclusive event for design and automation of electronic devices, is scheduled to be conducted at the San Diego Convention Center, California between June 5 and 10, 2011.

20 Jan 2011

Adept Participated in Industrial Automation and Robotics Systems e-Event

Adept Technology, major supplier of vision-guided robotics solutions and services, has declared that Rush LaSelle, Director of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, participated in the Industrial Automation and Robotics Systems e-Event, which was held on January 12, 2011.

20 Jan 2011

Tialinx Introduces Robot with Sense-Through-the-Wall Imager

TiaLinx, located at Newport Beach in California, builds tiny mm-wave radars having integrated radio and antennae. The company has just unveiled the Cougar10-L.

20 Jan 2011

RPCI Awarded Training Accreditation

Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has been accredited as a Training Institute for Robot-Assisted Surgery by the Société Internationale d’Urologie (SIU).

20 Jan 2011

Omrom Releases New Guide on Machine and Process Safeguards

Freemont, California-based Omron Scientific Technologies has just released the 2010-2011 Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding. The resource gives the most recent essential data and catalog of the company’s range of machine and process safety products.

20 Jan 2011

Robotic Bedside Monitor has Patient SafetyNet

Oridion, which had earlier developed the Smart Capnography series of solutions based on algorithms, has launched the Capnostream 20.

20 Jan 2011

Robotic Suit to Mobilize Disabled

Japanese company Cyberdyne has developed a robotic suit called the Hybrid Assistive Limb or HAL. It is an exoskeleton and is designed to help the disabled or elderly persons to gain mobility.

20 Jan 2011

DreamBots Launches Robotic Massager

DreamBots, an Israeli company, has showcased a robotic massager at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The device is compact and fits into the palm of the hand.

20 Jan 2011

Anthropomorphic Robot for Education

The DARwin OP, Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence, Open Platform from Virginia Tech was developed for use in education and outreach. It is completely open source from software to hardware, PC based and can run several operating systems from Windows to Linux.

19 Jan 2011

GeckoSystems Makes Use of Microsoft's Kinect in GeckoImager

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. announced that their recent invention of the GeckoImager has incorporated Microsoft's Kinect sensor.

By Andy Choi 19 Jan 2011

TaxiBot, a Robotic Airplane Taxiing System

TaxiBot is a pilot-controlled semi-robotic towing system. Developed jointly by IAI's Lahav Division and Airbus it is an innovative environmentally-friendly Dispatch Towing system, that allows airplanes to taxi to and from the airport gate to the runway without the need to operate their jet engines.

By Andy Choi 19 Jan 2011