Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Treats Patients with CyberKnife Robotic System

The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) was successful in treating its 2,000th patient with the CyberKnife Robotic Radio Surgery System from Accuray.

18 Aug 2011

U.S Army Awards Unmanned Autonomous Technology Development Contract to Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Marin has been awarded a development contract for US$ 47 million by the US Army for developing, demonstrating and delivering unmanned autonomous technologies for air systems that will be used on cargo resupply missions.

18 Aug 2011

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Collaborate with AME Unmanned Systems

AME Unmanned Systems and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems have signed a strategic alliance agreement towards developing unmanned systems.

18 Aug 2011

Sandia Labs Develops Gemini-Scout Robot for Rescuing Workers Trapped in Mines

The researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories have built a robot that is capable of gathering valuable first-hand information whenever an accident occurs in mines which will help the first responders in the rescue operations.

18 Aug 2011

U.S. Army Reviews Robot Use in the Military

A top official of the Department of Defence said that despite the army using robots in combat for over a decade it had to develop a sound set of operational rules and doctrine for their use in the future.

17 Aug 2011

RE2 Awarded Multiple Robotic Contracts by DoD

RE2 Inc., a Lawrenceville robotics company, said that it was going to develop multiple technology components for the first increment of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System (AEODRS) used by Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams managed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center EOD Technology Division (NAVEODTECHDIV).

17 Aug 2011

University of Michigan's MABEL Runs Free

MABEL the bipedal robot from the University of Michigan may not have a head but it still holds the record for being the fastest robot which can move at 6.8 miles per hour. MABEL was created in 2008 by a then doctoral student at the Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University called Jonathan Hurst.

17 Aug 2011