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Research and Markets Releases Report on Snake Robots

Research and Markets have added a new report to their portfolio titled, “Snake Robots Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide 2011 to 2017”.

By Andy Choi 19 Mar 2011

Nordson ASYMPTEC to Sponsor Six Teams for the San Diego FIRST Robotics Competition

Nordson ASYMTEK for the fifth time is supporting teams who are participating in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competion in San Diego. It is to mentor and sponsor six teams from San Diego.

By Andy Choi 19 Mar 2011

National Robotics Week to be Held in Second Week of April

A weeklong series of regional activities and events would be conducted during the second annual National Robotics Week, which is to be held from the 9th of April to the 17th of April, with an aim to increase public awareness on the importance of robo-technology and also the extraordinary cultural and social impact it would have on the future, with respect to the way people would play, work and live all over the world.

By Andy Choi 19 Mar 2011

Automate 2011 to Honor First Industrial Robot’s 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary

The first industrial robot set up in 1961at New Jersey’s General Motors Plant in Trenton is to be honored, at the Automate 2011 show with a special pavilion named “50 years: A Tribute to Industrial Robots”.

By Andy Choi 19 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Programmable Molecular Robot

Andrew Turberfield and his research team at the University of Oxford have built a programmable molecular robot, a molecular machine of sub-microscopic dimensions comprising artificial DNA.

By Andy Choi 18 Mar 2011

UCSF Medical Center Pharmacy Uses Robotic Technology

UCSF Medical Center is one the top ten hospitals in the US, recognized all over the world for pioneering research, advanced technology and innovative patient care, having been established more than a century ago.

By Andy Choi 18 Mar 2011

Spartanburg Doctor Uses Robotic Procedure to Remove Cancerous Tumors

The Gibbs Cancer Center, a division of the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, has the credit of being the first to use the da Vinci Surgical System, which is a robotic device for performing minimally invasive surgeries for the removal of cancerous tumors from the lungs in the South Carolina region.

By Andy Choi 18 Mar 2011

Virginia Tech Develops Robotic Hand for Typing

DART developed and created by Nicholas Thayer and Shashank Priya of Virginia Tech is a dexterous anthropomorphic robotic typing hand.

By Andy Choi 18 Mar 2011

Robotic Submersible Vehicle to Explore the Ocean Floor

A group of scientists from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute are planning to launch a research mission for two days from the Moss Landing harbor to the bottom of the sea.

By Andy Choi 18 Mar 2011

Engineers Develop Projects Using Robots as Key Tools for Teaching Basic Science and Math Concepts

Brooklyn Community Foundation has plans of offering a grant amounting to $500,000 to further develop an existing program, which would attract engineering students to work as mentors in Brooklyn Schools.

By Andy Choi 18 Mar 2011

Companies Test Robotic Nurse for Use in Local Hospitals

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to explore the concept of robotic nurses and the way it can revolutionize the medical industry.

By Andy Choi 17 Mar 2011

Young Women Participate in FIRST Robotics Tournament

The "Girls of Steel" team, comprising the young women who are interested in science, have participated in the FIRST robotics tournament held at the University of Pittsburgh's Petersen Events Center in Oakland.

By Andy Choi 17 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Rescue Robots for Tough Conditions

Researchers with their robots from Japan, the United States and the U.S. military participated in a two day workshop conducted at Disaster City in College Station, Texas, on Tuesday, March 8, 2011.

By Andy Choi 17 Mar 2011

Viking Systems to Display 3DHD Surgical Robotic System

Viking Systems, a company that develops and manufactures three-dimensional and two-dimensional visualization solutions for complex minimally invasive surgery, declared the selection of its 3DHD system as the vision component for a cost-effective surgical robotic system demonstration.

By Andy Choi 16 Mar 2011

Researchers to Develop Prototype of Robotic Scrub Nurse

Researchers at Purdue University are working on a prototype of a gesture-driven robotic scrub nurse to help nurses in hospitals to perform their technical duties or for replacing the scrub technician.

By Andy Choi 16 Mar 2011