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Researchers to Develop Firefighting Humanoid

Office of Naval Research has sponsored a project to develop a firefighting humanoid and to deploy it in firefighting operations aboard ships. The tenure of the project is three years and approximately $2 million a year will be spent on the new robot.

19 Jan 2011

Fanuc Robotics Opens New Facility in Shanghai

Fanuc Robotics has opened a new facility in Baoshan, Shanghai. The plant covers an area of 37,900 square meters and the company has invested US$16.8 million on this new project.

19 Jan 2011

Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision to be Held in Newfoundland

The Eighth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2011) is scheduled to be organized in St. John's, Newfoundland between May 25 and 27, 2011.

19 Jan 2011

Bluefin Robotics Partners with Harvey-Lynch

Bluefin Robotics, major developer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has declared a regional collaboration with Harvey-Lynch, Strafford-based subsea machinery solutions supplier.

19 Jan 2011

Haliburton International Foods to Install Adept Packaging Automation Cell

Haliburton International Foods has declared that it is the primary US food company to include Adept Technology’s Adept Packaging Automation Cell (PAC). The new automation cell is based on vision-guided technology for accomplishing packaging up to a speed of 150 ppm.

19 Jan 2011

Researchers to Perform Clinical Trial of Da Vinci Surgical Robot

A group of researchers headed by Prof. Freddie Hamdy will perform a clinical experiment using the Da Vinci surgical robot to improve prostate cancer therapy.

19 Jan 2011

YIT Ehitus and Tallinn Science Park to Build Center of Mechatronics

YIT Ehitus and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol Foundation have contracted to construct the Center of Mechatronics in Tallinn, Estonia.

19 Jan 2011

South Korean Schools to Use Robots for Teaching English

South Korean government has funded a new project for using robots to teach English to children. Around 30 robot teachers have started teaching in 19 elementary schools of Deagu city.

19 Jan 2011

Imtech Acquires Trecom

Imtech, leading provider of technical services in Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Trecom, a pioneer in industrial process automation.

19 Jan 2011

Researcher Develops Emotions-Recognizing Robot

Dr. Nguyen Duc Thanh, Faculty of Electrics-Electronics Department, HCM City Polytechnic University, has developed a robot that can identify emotions of humans.

19 Jan 2011

Lockheed Martin Orders MAG AutoDrill Systems

MAG Industrial Automation Systems has secured an order worth $7 million from Lockheed Martin to supply two CNC-controlled, 6-axis AutoDrill systems.

19 Jan 2011

HomeSeer Technologies Launches Home Automation Controller

HomeSeer Technologies has announced that the company will introduce its latest home automation controller called HomeTroller-Mini at the 2011 CES expo in Las Vegas.

19 Jan 2011

Flint Group Introduces Nyloflex Automated Plate Processor

Flint Group Flexographic Products has introduced its first product in a fully automated processing series for flexographic printing plates, the Nyloflex Automated Plate Processor (APP) in the first quarter of 2011.

19 Jan 2011

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Ocean Missions

The Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), a part of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) based in India, has created the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for performing ocean missions.

19 Jan 2011

Aldebaran Robotics Demonstrates Latest Humanoid

Aldebaran Robotics, a humanoid robot manufacturer located in Paris, has demonstrated its latest version of a humanoid robot called Nao Robot at the IEEE Humanoids conference conducted in December 2010.

19 Jan 2011