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Insitu Pacific Partners iRobot for UGV Distribution in Australia

Insitu Pacific, a UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) manufacturer and service provider, has been appointed as the distributor of iRobot’s range of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in Australia.

By Andy Choi 21 Apr 2011

Texas Instruments Launches Stellaris MCU Robotic Evaluation Platform

Texas Instruments (TI) has released its latest Stellaris microcontroller (MCU) Robotic Evaluation Platform (EVALBOT).

From Texas Instruments Incorporated 20 Apr 2011

Robot Block Party Event Includes SRI International’s Telerobotics and Wall-climbing Robot

Robot Block Party event featured SRI International’s ingenious Telerobotics and wall-mounting robot. The event was organized at the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL) of Stanford University on April 14.

By Andy Choi 20 Apr 2011

Health Robotics Ties Up with Nutricare for Promoting CytoCare Cancer Therapy Robot

Health Robotics has taken on Nutricare ., which is the Pharmacy leader in Costa Rica, as a partner for distribution of its CytoCare Cancer Therapy Robot, representing the entry of Health Robotics into the first Latin American Country and also the 19th new country during the last 20 months.

By Andy Choi 20 Apr 2011

Single-Incision Robotic Hysterectomy Performed at the North Florida Medical Center

An innovative hysterectomy with one incision was performed by Dr. Anthony Agrios, in North Florida, using the da Vinci Surgery system.

By Andy Choi 20 Apr 2011

SICK’s Inspector Viewer Provides Monitoring and Trending Abilities for Inspector Vision Sensors

SICK, leading provider of machine vision, sensors, and automated recognition products for industrial and logistics automation segments, has declared the release of the Inspection Viewer.

From SICK AG 20 Apr 2011

Colorado Regional FIRST Robotics Held at Magness Arena

High schoolers from several parts of the world participated in the eighth annual Colorado Regional For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics contest.

By Andy Choi 20 Apr 2011

Recycler Robot for Sorting Through Waste to Save Recyclable Materials

Tuomas J. Lukka leads a team of researchers at Helsinki’s ZenRobotics and has developed an industrial robot with a difference.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

Irvine Doctors Carry Out Robotic Spinal Surgery

Dr. Samuel Bederman and Dr. Nitin Bhatia from the UC Irvine Medical Center have performed the first robotic spinal surgery using SpineAssist, a robotic system, which enhances the precision of implant placements in the spine.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

Titan Medical Robotic Surgical System Could Revolutionize Surgery

Titan Medical is currently developing an enhanced system called Amadeus for robotic surgery, which would permit the surgeons to experience the pressure exerted by the surgical devices, which are working inside the body.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

Stone Clinic Introduces Robotic Knee Replacements

Dr. Kevin R. Stone, who is an Orthopedic Surgeon, has carried out the first outpatient robotic knee replacement surgery in the San Francisco Surgery Center, which is an outpatient surgery center located near Union Square.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

Adaptive Gripper Launched by Robotiq for Helping Robots

Reducing costs and increasing the flexibility of their operations have become the major priority for manufacturers so that they could respond speedily to the demands posed by their customers.

From Robotiq 19 Apr 2011

Motoman Introduces New Slim SIA Series Robots

Motoman Robotics has launched their SIA series Robots, which include an actuator- based 7 axis design, which helps in wrist performance with greater freedom of movements.

From Yaskawa Motoman 19 Apr 2011

Intuitive Surgical to Integrate Fiber Optic-Based Shape Sensing System into Medical Robotics Products

Luna Innovations has decided to continue to work with Intuitive Surgical for developing and integrating the Shape Sensing Technologies created by Luna into the products devised by Intuitive.

By Andy Choi 19 Apr 2011

University of Leeds to Perform Clinical Trial of Robotic-Assisted Keyhole Surgery

The Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) of the University of Leeds will head a clinical trial to determine if robotic approach can be used to eliminate bowel cancer by means of laparoscopic or 'keyhole' methods and also if this method reduces the risk of reoccurrence of bowel cancer.

By Andy Choi 18 Apr 2011