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Residential Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Market in Western Europe Forecast to Grow at 9.67% CAGR

A robotic vacuum cleaner, also called robovac, is a vacuum cleaner that has the ability to function without human intervention within a defined area. It consists of a mobile base, a docking station, and other accessories that support its smooth functioning. It is autonomous to a high degree and uses intelligent sensory feedback control that is programmed to clean surfaces automatically. It is used to clean floors, gutters, and pools.

6 Nov 2014

El Camino Real Charter and Sultana High School Robotic Teams to Compete in State Championship

Recently high school robotics teams from Los Angeles' El Camino Real Charter High School and Hesperia's Sultana High School recently defeated 22 other Southern California robotics teams at the inaugural VEX/Project Lead the Way Inland Empire Challenge.

5 Nov 2014

Vacuum Cleaner Robots Market Forecast to Reach $2.6 Billion by 2020

ReportsnReports.com adds Cleaning Robots: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020 research report of 359 pages to the semiconductors and electronics segment of industry intelligence library.

5 Nov 2014

Soft Robotics Inspires Baymax Balloon-Like Robot in Disney Movie

When Don Hall saw a robot arm made of balloons while visiting Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute several years ago, he knew instantly that Baymax, a pivotal character in the animated feature he was co-directing for Disney, also would be an inflatable robot.

31 Oct 2014

Measurable Virtual Reality Visualizes Robot's Perceptions

In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.

30 Oct 2014

Global Service Robot Market Forecast to Grow at 16.50% CAGR Over the Period 2013-2018

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Service Robot Market 2014-2018" report to their offering.

29 Oct 2014

Students to Connect with Medtech Leaders over Robotic Competition at MD&M Minneapolis

America's future engineers will connect with world-renown medtech leaders over friendly robotic competition at the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) Minneapolis Exposition and Conference on October 29-30th at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

27 Oct 2014

Command Security Purchases iRobot's Ava 500 Video Collaboration Robot

Command Security Corporation announced that it has signed a teaming agreement with iRobot and purchased iRobot's Ava 500 Video Collaboration Robot to explore next-generation staff augmentation through a trial program with Lincoln Property Company.

25 Oct 2014

Wintergreen Research Releases New Report on Worldwide Robotics Markets

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Robots: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020" to their offering.

24 Oct 2014

Researchers Create Neural Network that Allows Robots to Detect Different Patterns

Through a computational algorithm, a team of researchers from the University of Guadalajara (UDG) in Mexico, developed a neural network that allows a small robot to detect different patterns, such as images, fingerprints, handwriting, faces, bodies, voice frequencies and DNA sequences.

21 Oct 2014