Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

da Vinci Surgical Robot to be Test Driven by Golf Fans at LPGA Tournament

On the Scottsdale Healthcare Day, Golf fans can test drive the da Vinci Surgical robot made available by the Scottsdale Healthcare Thompson Peak Hospital and displayed at the RR Donnelly LPGA Founders Cup at the Phoenix’ Wildfire Gold Club located at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa.

29 Mar 2011

14 Robotic Teams Participate in Florida Regional Botball Tournament

The finale of the seven week regional educational robotics program was the Florida Regional Botball Tournament for the tech savvy high school students. The competition needs the teams to build autonomous robots, which have to survive a Botball game.

29 Mar 2011

Robots Participate in Search and Rescue Operations in Quake Hit Japan

Japan, well-known for digital devices such as Hello-Kitty pocket pals and creepy fem bots is also the place where robotic attendants are found; who would assist Japan’s aging population to perform everyday tasks especially, for those who live without family and children around them.

29 Mar 2011

Almac Provides Automated Walletting for Clinical Trial Supply

Almac, a global clinical services provider has invested in two ZED automated inline wallet presses, which would radically decrease the time associated with the usage of blister card packing, in contrast to the traditional rotary press methods.

29 Mar 2011

Adept Technology Showcases Robots in Automate 2011

Adept Technology, a global robotic services and intelligent vision guided robotics provider, celebrated its 28 year old past history in the robotics industry, present and future in a major four day automation event.

29 Mar 2011

Windham Robotics Team to Participate in National Championships at St. Louis

The Windham Windup team participated for the first time in the FIRST Robotics regional competition in Manchester and won the Rookie All-Star Award along with a trip to the national championships in St. Louis.

28 Mar 2011

Automated Robotic Oil Rigs to Help in Oil Drilling Operations

OPEC, Russia and other National Oil companies have been unable to perform oil drilling due to political restrictions on international oil drilling and hence they have shifted base to drill in the more extreme environments, where the giant oil fields are most likely to be found.

28 Mar 2011

RE2 to Develop Robotic Controller with Dual Arms

RE2, a developer of Intelligent Modular Manipulation Systems, has declared that the Office of Naval Research has awarded a three year $1.1 million Broad Agency Announcement Contract (BAA) for developing a dual-arm robotic controller for operations involving Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD).

28 Mar 2011

New School Robotics Team Win Awards at FIRST Robotics Regional Competition

The FIRST Robotics Regional Competition was held at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester from March 3-5.

28 Mar 2011

Bridgewater-Raynham Robotics Team to Participate in Robotics Competition

Jarvis, a mechanical athletic robot, was created by the Bridgewater-Raynham (BR) High School Robotics team known as TJ2 from a heap of bolts, gears, wires and other parts.

28 Mar 2011