Personal Robotics
- Evolution Robotics Introduces Mint – The Evolution of Floor Cleaning
- iRobot Achieves Milestone in Home Robot Market
- HEXBUG Nano Swarms Toys“R”Us & RadioShack Stores Nationwide
- Robonica Launches Roboni-i, Marking the Rise of Robotic Gaming
- Household Robots Do Not Protect Users’ Security and Privacy, Researchers Say…
- Nissan EPORO Robot Car “Goes to School” on Collision-free Driving by…
- PCS Edventures! Announces Partnership With MINDS-i
- Bossa Nova Robotics Unveils its First Line of Personal Entertainment Robots
Evolution Robotics Introduces Mint – The Evolution of Floor Cleaning
Evolution Robotics partners with renowned industrial designer Yves Behar to deliver appliance-grade floor cleaner that exploits Evolution’s low-cost…
Service Robots
- Swisslog Enters Autonomous Mobile Robot Market with SpeciMinder and RoboCourier
- Myomo Neuro-Robotic Technology Restores Use of Paralyzed Limbs
- South Fulton Medical Center First in Georgia to Purchase Prosurgics’ Laparoscopic…
- Harvest Automation, Inc. Receives $4.0M Series A Financing
- Luna Innovations and Intuitive Surgical Expand Relationship
- NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
- Carnegie Mellon Engineers Develop Machine That Visually Inspects and Sorts Strawberry…
- GE Aviation and AAI Perform First Trajectory-Based Flight on Unmanned Aircraft System…
Swisslog Enters Autonomous Mobile Robot Market with SpeciMinder and RoboCourier
CCS Robotics to manufacturer SpeciMinder and RoboCourier for Swisslog, a provider of integrated logistics solutions for warehouses, distribution centers…
Security & Defense
- Lockheed Martin Selects Protonex To Enhance HULC Power Supply Technologies
- Solution Found for Battlefield Robot Control Problem
- Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8B Fire Scout Demonstrates Interoperability With the Army’s OSRVT
- AAI Receives $39 Million Award for Additional Shadow Systems
- OceanServer Delivers Iver2 AUV to Naval Surface Warfare Center
- CyPhy Works Wins NIST Technology Innovation Program Award
- Insitu Demonstrates One Launch and Recovery System
- Next-Generation of Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Takes Flight
Lockheed Martin Selects Protonex To Enhance HULC Power Supply Technologies
Protonex will develop fuel cell-based power solutions for Lockheed Martin’s HULC anthropomorphic, electro-hydraulic, robotic exoskeleton.
Industrial Robots
- ABB Secures Agreement to Provide Robotic Automation to A123 Systems for Advanced Battery Application
- Latest Version of GigE Vision Standard Released
- Boston Scientific Selects Kiva Warehouse Automation System for Distribution Centers
- Innovations in Robotics and Evolving Safety Standards Examined in New White Paper
- FANUC Robotics Introduces M-3iA Intelligent, Flexible, and High-Speed Assembly Robot
- Kiva Systems’ Double Digit Growth Defies 2009’s Recession Economy
- Viewbits Introduces 12 Megapixel, 25 Frames per Second, Machine Vision Camera
- DENSO Robotics Introduces New EtherNet/IP Connectivity
ABB Secures Agreement to Provide Robotic Automation to A123 Systems for Advanced Battery Application
ABB Robotics to provide A1123 Systems with 15 robots for the assembly and manufacturing of high-power lithium-ion battery modules and packs.
Academics & Research
- Robot Programming Used to Measure Effectiveness of Virtual Learning
- Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition
- Cockroaches Offer Inspiration for Running Robots
- UB Professor Studies the Flight of Hummingbirds To Develop Self-Propelled Surveillance Devices
- Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition
- iRobot Launches New Initiative to ‘SPARK’ STEM Education in the Classroom
- Researchers Demonstrate a Better Way for Computers to ‘See’
- SPARKy Device Helps Amputees Return to Normal Lives
Robot Programming Used to Measure Effectiveness of Virtual Learning
Using robot programming as a measure for teaching effectiveness, four senior academics in the UK and Japan are looking into how virtual environments such…
Design & Development
- CoroWare Expands Business in Asia With New Distributor
- Hokuyo URG LIDAR Drivers Integrated into National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics Software
- PMD Enhances Its Prodigy Family of Motion Cards With New Features and Peripherals
- Velodyne Lidar Expands Global Reseller Network
- National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW Robotics 2009
- Silicon Labs Microcontrollers Deliver Industry’s Lowest Active and Sleep Current
- STMicroelectronics Combines Linear and Angular Motion Sensing in a Single Device
- Slam Dunk for Future Smart Robots
Hokuyo URG LIDAR Drivers Integrated into National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics Software
NI’s newly released LabVIEW Robotics 2009 software, used to design and prototype sophisticated robotics control systems, now includes drivers for Hokuyo’s…
