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Mace Security Releases Remote Monitoring System

Mace Security has released Mace Easy Watch, a new remote monitoring system in the RJ11e linked security video inspection family. This system offers plug and play installation convenience for easy audio and video security inspection operations.

17 Dec 2010

Kytola Selects Primary Solution and Controls as Distributor

Kytola Instruments has declared that it has selected Primary Solution and Controls for distributing its products in the Ontario province.

17 Dec 2010

Researchers to Deploy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to Study Tasmania’s Marine Environment

The University of Tasmania and CSIRO are working on the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), a joint research project focused on investigating marine environment around Tasmania.

17 Dec 2010

Alrad to Serve as Distributor for Coherent’s Machine Vision Systems

Alrad has declared that it has made a contract with Coherent to serve as an official British Isles distributor of Coherant’s Lasiris lasers, which are used in several machine vision applications.

17 Dec 2010

Aldebaran Robotics to Launch Romeo Humanoid

Aldebaran Robotics has partnered with several research organizations of France to develop Romeo Robot, an innovative adult-size humanoid. The robot will help aged and disabled people in doing their daily chores and is likely to be released in March 2011.

17 Dec 2010

Schneider Packaging Launches Tissue Tough Robotic Palletizers

Schneider Packaging Equipment has released Tissue Tough robotic palletizers for providing cost-effective solutions for toilet paper, tissue and paper towel palletizing applications.

From Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc. 16 Dec 2010

Jakarta Features World’s Largest Robot House

World Robotic Explorer, world’s largest robot house, was opened in Thamrin City Mall, Jakarta. Robotic technology is offered as an activity -based education in the robot house and the house can accommodate around 255 people.

16 Dec 2010

Researchers Evaluate the Ability of Automated UV Device

A team of researchers including William A. Rutala, Maria F. Gergen, and David J. Weber at the University of North Carolina Health Care, have published outcomes of their investigation titled, ‘Room Decontamination with UV Radiation’, in the recent issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology magazine.

16 Dec 2010

Ohio Laser Opens New Robotic Cutting and Welding facility

Ohio Laser has established a new facility in their ISO-9001:2008 production campus. The new facility includes the latest 3000 watt Trumpf Tubematic 5000 system, a 3000 watt Trumpf Tubematic 5000 system, a raw material storeroom and a 10 ton overhead crane for quickly transporting the materials all through the new facility.

16 Dec 2010

Lincoln Electric Releases Automated Welding Fume Extractors

Lincoln Electric has launched Mobiflex 200-M and 400-MS, ideal for extracting and filtering fumes during welding operations. These low-vacuum systems can be deployed in small production plants, where heavy duty fume extractors are not required.

From Lincoln Electric UK (Ltd) 16 Dec 2010

NSA Supports Program for African American Students to Pursue Careers in Robotics

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has offered an award worth $1.5 million to Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance comprising nine Universities including Carnegie Mellon University and 19 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

16 Dec 2010

I’Anson Bros Includes Robotic Bagging and Palletizing Equipment

I’Anson Bros has included three Pacepacker bagging and robotic palletizing systems for reducing sack wastage. It was reported that the installation has enabled the company to reduce packing personnel by 40% and to manufacture 2 million sacks of animal feed every year.

16 Dec 2010

ATS Automation Announces Acquisition of ATW Automation Business

ATS Automation Tooling Systems has declared that one among its subsidiaries has made an agreement to procure Assembly & Test Worldwide’s (ATW) operations in Dayton Ohio, Saginaw Michigan, Livonia Michigan and Neuwied Germany for US $18.5 million.

From ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. 16 Dec 2010

Running Athlete: Artificial Musculoskeletal System

There have been running bipedal robots before, but their movement is mechanical very robot-like indeed. Ryuma Niiyama of MIT's Robot Locomotion Group wants to build a flexible, agile robot with less of a mechanical gait and more of a sprinter's-type stride, which means that it runs as human-like as possible.

By Andy Choi 14 Dec 2010

RMT Robotics Launches Programmable Sound System for ADAM Robot

RMT Robotics has released a new sound system for the company’s Autonomous Delivery and Manipulation (ADAM) mobile robot, named ADAM Reactive Audio Playback.

14 Dec 2010