Omnicell has renewed the agreement with Premier Healthcare for Medication and Supply Automation. Premier member hospitals and healthcare units will derive the benefits of the premium pricing on the medication and supply management solutions according to the renewed 36-month agreement.
Forum Subsea Solutions, part of Forum Energy Technologies, declares that the Sub-Atlantic Super Mohawk II is ready for sale to Abyss International Benthic Exploration S.A.R.L of France.
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) has chosen a professor from Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) as the inaugural winner of ‘Member of the Year’ award. Professor Mark Patterson is the director of the Autonomous Systems laboratory at VIMS.
OpenSilicon has adopted SiliconSmart ACE from Magma Design Automation as a standard for characterization and modelling of standard and I/O cell.
Roboteq launches HBL2350, a smart controller which can drive two brushless DC motors with 75A each up to 50V. HBL2350 is the first in the category of dual channel, high current brushless motor controllers.
Ocean Power Technologies has revealed that it has installed an innovative autonomous wave energy device for seal trials.
A subsidiary of IsoRay Medical and a manufacturer of Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds, IsoRay has announced that a number of medical treatment centers and hospitals are adopting the company’s mesh brachytherapy treatment for use along with the da Vinci Surgical System to treat patients with early stage lung cancer.
At Vanderbilt University in Nashville scientists are working on a lower limb prosthetic that will allow amputees to walk with a more natural gait. The artificial leg which they have come up with uses computing, sensor, electric motor and battery technology to achieve its purpose.
By Joel Scanlon
23 Aug 2011
iRobot Corp has been given an order by the U.S.Navy worth $ 21 million for the delivery of more than 100 Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) MK 1 MOD 1 robots and spares kits. This is the fourth order which is part of a $230 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, bringing total orders under this contract to $36 million.
Robonaut 2 the humanoid robot that NASA sent up with the last shuttle Discovery has been unboxed. Robonaut 2, also known as R2 was delivered five months ago to the International Space Station and has been powered up for the first time on this mission.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Aug 2011
A US government owned firm has come up with a scout robot that could be used by rescue teams to save miners. The scout robot has been developed using the Microsoft Xbox 360 game controller by Sandia National Laboratories.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
22 Aug 2011
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) has entered a partnership with the U.S. Army in study, development and exploration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) technology.
Boeing has demonstrated its swarm technology with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in tests that it conducted over eastern Oregon.
Composites Horizons (CHI), a provider of composite tooling and composite products for space components, aircraft manufacturing and medical equipment, has announced that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has selected the company for producing an exhaust duct for the Predator C Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).
At the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America 2011 conference, the director of innovation at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Dr. Larry Schuette, said that ONR had to overcome a significant number of hurdles, including littoral and autonomy operations in its unmanned systems.