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SBA Honors Aurora for SPHERES Program Utilized in Zero Robotics Competition

Aurora Flight Sciences was honored by the Small Business Administration with its Tibbetts Award which recognizes technological innovation made possible through the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

22 May 2013

KIT Researchers and Disney Research Demonstrate Natural Human-to-Robot Handoff Motion

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

21 May 2013

Study Results Help Develop Robots Capable of Working in Confined Spaces

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

21 May 2013

Opportunity to Interact with Robots at NYU-Poly Research Expo

As a newly minted class of engineers walk the stage at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University Commencement next week, New Yorkers will have an opportunity to walk into the future, as Downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Plaza transforms for the university's first annual Research Expo.

17 May 2013

GeckoSystems Reports Final Negotiations for Licensing of Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. has announced that final negotiations for licensing of their "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(tm)" are ongoing. This first joint venture and licensing agreement has been long sought by the management of GeckoSystems as irrefutable proof of the benefit and "value proposition" of their many years of R&D, testing, and marketing.

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 17 May 2013

VEX Robotics to Showcase VEX IQ at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013

VEX Robotics, Inc., announced today its support of, and presence at, the Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18-19, where the company will have a booth (#459) to make its consumer debut of VEX IQ – a robotics platform designed to transform STEM learning for young students and teachers.

From VEX Robotics, Inc 16 May 2013

Temple Engineering Graduates to Attend NASA Robotics Program

As sophomores, engineering students Vadim Linevich and Andrew Powell both became involved in the NASA-funded Student Space Exploration and Environmental Systems Laboratory (SSEESL) in Temple’s College of Engineering. The lab offers students a chance to work on diverse projects involving robotics, quad-copters, sub-orbital payload design and high altitude ballooning.

16 May 2013