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Robotic Surgery Brings New Hope for Obese Kidney Patients

Morbidly obese patients have a new ray of hope when it comes to kidney surgeries. Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago are the first to offer robotic kidney transplantation and have reported fewer complications among this high risk population.

By Andy Choi 19 Dec 2010

Willow Garage Announces Expansion of PR2 Robot Community

Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotic applications, announced that the PR2 community has expanded to 16 leading research labs worldwide. Scientists and engineers at four leading research institutions have purchased the PR2 robot platform from Willow Garage will now be able to explore the innovative capabilities for personal robots at a much faster pace.

By Andy Choi 19 Dec 2010

Automation Systems Giant Multivac Offers Donation

Multivac, global provider of packaging and automation solutions, has contributed around $30,000 to almost 40 distinct charity organizations.

17 Dec 2010

MIT Researcher to Develop Athlete Robot

Ryuma Niiyama along with his colleagues at the Robot Locomotion Group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on developing a robot named ‘Athlete,’ which can run as fast as human beings.

17 Dec 2010

Mace Security Releases Remote Monitoring System

Mace Security has released Mace Easy Watch, a new remote monitoring system in the RJ11e linked security video inspection family. This system offers plug and play installation convenience for easy audio and video security inspection operations.

17 Dec 2010

Kytola Selects Primary Solution and Controls as Distributor

Kytola Instruments has declared that it has selected Primary Solution and Controls for distributing its products in the Ontario province.

17 Dec 2010

Researchers to Deploy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to Study Tasmania’s Marine Environment

The University of Tasmania and CSIRO are working on the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), a joint research project focused on investigating marine environment around Tasmania.

17 Dec 2010

Alrad to Serve as Distributor for Coherent’s Machine Vision Systems

Alrad has declared that it has made a contract with Coherent to serve as an official British Isles distributor of Coherant’s Lasiris lasers, which are used in several machine vision applications.

17 Dec 2010

Aldebaran Robotics to Launch Romeo Humanoid

Aldebaran Robotics has partnered with several research organizations of France to develop Romeo Robot, an innovative adult-size humanoid. The robot will help aged and disabled people in doing their daily chores and is likely to be released in March 2011.

17 Dec 2010

Schneider Packaging Launches Tissue Tough Robotic Palletizers

Schneider Packaging Equipment has released Tissue Tough robotic palletizers for providing cost-effective solutions for toilet paper, tissue and paper towel palletizing applications.

From Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc. 16 Dec 2010

Jakarta Features World’s Largest Robot House

World Robotic Explorer, world’s largest robot house, was opened in Thamrin City Mall, Jakarta. Robotic technology is offered as an activity -based education in the robot house and the house can accommodate around 255 people.

16 Dec 2010

Researchers Evaluate the Ability of Automated UV Device

A team of researchers including William A. Rutala, Maria F. Gergen, and David J. Weber at the University of North Carolina Health Care, have published outcomes of their investigation titled, ‘Room Decontamination with UV Radiation’, in the recent issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology magazine.

16 Dec 2010

Ohio Laser Opens New Robotic Cutting and Welding facility

Ohio Laser has established a new facility in their ISO-9001:2008 production campus. The new facility includes the latest 3000 watt Trumpf Tubematic 5000 system, a 3000 watt Trumpf Tubematic 5000 system, a raw material storeroom and a 10 ton overhead crane for quickly transporting the materials all through the new facility.

16 Dec 2010

Lincoln Electric Releases Automated Welding Fume Extractors

Lincoln Electric has launched Mobiflex 200-M and 400-MS, ideal for extracting and filtering fumes during welding operations. These low-vacuum systems can be deployed in small production plants, where heavy duty fume extractors are not required.

From Lincoln Electric UK (Ltd) 16 Dec 2010

NSA Supports Program for African American Students to Pursue Careers in Robotics

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has offered an award worth $1.5 million to Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance comprising nine Universities including Carnegie Mellon University and 19 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

16 Dec 2010