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Toyota’s Partner Robots Play Violin and Trumpet

Toyota displayed the robots playing violin and trumpet at its Tokyo AMLUX building. Human violin and trumpet players played alongside the robots, trying to match their playing to the musician bots. The robots performed the same pieces that they had performed earlier.

1 Mar 2011

FedEx to Transport US Robots for FIRST Robotics Competition

During the annual FIRST National Robot Ship Day, FedEx will offer support to the US robotics teams who are competing in the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) by covering the transportation cost for more than 1,000 robots.

28 Feb 2011

Advanced Humanoid Robots to Assist Visitors

Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (Adnec) will start testing a robot to assist and give directions to visitors at the Emirate's expo centre.

28 Feb 2011

Invensys to Deliver Automated Process Control and Programmable Power Monitoring Systems for Russian Power Industry

Invensys, a company that manufactures automated process control and programmable power monitoring systems, discussed its vision for the development of the Russian fuel and power industry with members of the Federation Council in Moscow.

28 Feb 2011

Welding Cell Robots to Improve Production Efficiency

Youngman Group will invest £2.5 million in the state of the art technology required for setting up two fully-automated welding cells with ABB's IRB 1600 robots.

28 Feb 2011

Loomis Chaffee Team Qualifies for Massachusetts Robotics Championship Event

The Loomis Chaffee Robotics Team qualified for the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) by winning the Merrimack Valley Regional Competition. The Chaffee robotics team competed with 20 other high school teams from New England.

28 Feb 2011

ISR to Present Cutting-Edge Research Topics on Robotics at Automate 2011

International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), an international robotics conference, is scheduled to take place at the Automate 2011, at McCormick Place in Chicago from March 21, 2011 to March 24, 2011.

28 Feb 2011

Gostai Unveils Jazz Robots at CeBIT

Gostai will showcase its Jazz robot with an LCD screen at CeBIT this year. The Jazz robot, manufactured by Gostai, will be displayed at booth B09 of hall 9 in Hannover from March 1 to March 5.

28 Feb 2011

Study Releases Key Factors Affecting Commercialization of Robotics

According to a new study by Frost & Sullivan titled, “Robots for Maintenance and Safety”, the major factors that affect commercialization of robotics include the level of accuracy, increased productivity, and safety compliance for human resources.

28 Feb 2011

ESS’s Automated Feeding System Contributes to Cost Savings

ESS Technologies, a company that designs, manufactures and integrates packaging equipment, has introduced a flexible feeding system, called TaskMate to handle the packaging needs for a wide range of products.

28 Feb 2011

East Lake Students to Participate in Regional Robotic Competition

Students at the East Lake High school formed a robotic team called Krunch to design and build robots for this year’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition.

28 Feb 2011

AIS’s Touch Screen Panels Used for Enhancing Industrial Automation

American Industrial Systems (AIS) has introduced a line of touch screen Panel PC’s for supporting applications that deal with process control, machine and industrial automation.

28 Feb 2011

Three Robotics Teams from M’Aiken High School Win Regional Competition

Three Tech Challenge robotics teams of M’Aiken High School won the regional event that was held in Cookville, Tenn., on Saturday. G-Force and its partner team took the first place whereas Atomix, another team from M'Aiken scored second and M'Aiken Tech Magic secured the third place.

28 Feb 2011

Team Ubotic Hopes to Win Worldwide Championship

Team Ubotic is a 17-member squad of young roboticists representing the Union High School. They have been working 8 hours every day, confident about qualifying for the international FIRST robotics competition with their robot “Ubot”.

28 Feb 2011

Sprockets Represent Diamond Bar High with Their First Robot

Sprockets, the robotics team representing Diamond Bar High School in the FIRST robotic competition, have developed a robot for the competition. Over 6 weeks, the team received several sponsors and raised $19,000.

28 Feb 2011