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Emerson’s Smart Wireless Gateway Receives Achilles Certification for Industrial Automation

Emerson Process Management has declared that its Smart Wireless Gateway has been authorized by Achilles for industrial automation requirements.

9 Dec 2010

Elekta Obtains FDA Clearance for Automated Spot Scanning

Elekta has obtained the 510(k) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its XiO software, which is a therapy decision software for automated spot scanning.

9 Dec 2010

Cardinal Health to Integrate CardinalASSIST with Omnicell’s Automated Dispensing Systems

Cardinal Health has declared the inclusion of CardinalASSIST, an automated medication refilling service, in Omnicell’s automated medication dispensing systems at the 45th Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), California.

9 Dec 2010

Bluefin Robotics Demonstrates AUV with Integrated SAS

Bluefin Robotics, global leader in developing Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), has declared that it has successfully analyzed the first ever AUV with a completely incorporated synthetic aperture sonar (SAS).

9 Dec 2010

Jefferson Hospital Presents Investigation Outcomes of Automated COR Analyzer System

A team of doctors at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, have released the outcomes of an investigation revealing the potential of a completely automated analysis of coronary CT angiography (cCTA) by the COR Analyzer System of Rcadia.

9 Dec 2010

Physicians Regional Procures da Vinci Si Surgical Robot

Naples-based Physicians Regional Healthcare System has procured the Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Si Surgical System along with a dual console and has become the first-ever robotics program on the West coast of Florida to include the dual console.

9 Dec 2010

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center Offer Robotic Knee Surgery

Orthopedic surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center are utilizing the RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System to carry out partial knee replacement procedures for preliminary to middle stage osteoarthritis patients.

9 Dec 2010

JBS USA Implements Remote Monitoring System at Beef Plants

JBS USA Holdings’ Beef Division, a subsidiary of JBS S.A, Brazil-based meatpacking firm, has announced that a remote monitoring program will be executed round-the-clock at its eight beef facilities.

9 Dec 2010

Hollysys Automation to Partake in Major Investor Event

Hollysys Automation, a China-based supplier of control and automation systems, has declared that Peter Li, Chief Financial Officer and Jennifer Zhang, Investor Relations Manager of the company, will participate in the upcoming investor event.

9 Dec 2010

Fraunhofer Institute Researchers to Develop Multi-Purpose Robot

Scientists at the Berlin-based, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK, are researching on an industrial robot, which could offer better adaptability to mass production processes in industries.

9 Dec 2010

AT+F Steel Releases Robotic Contour Beveling Systems

AT&F Steel has declared the launch of an innovative robotic contour beveling system. In a single operation, the robotic system can cut several straight or differently shaped bevels.

9 Dec 2010

Researcher Develops Robotic Device to Help Paraplegics to Walk

Amit Goffer, Founder of Argo Medical Technologies, has developed robotic ‘pants’ that utilizes motors and sensors to enable paraplegics to stand and walk.

From Lifeward, Inc. 9 Dec 2010

Strategic Collaboration to Develop Machine Vision Inspection System for Food and Beverage Industries

Applied Vision has collaborated with Sardee Industries to develop a first-ever machine vision inspection system to recognize physical impairments in plastic slide sheets utilized in material handing of food and beverage cans.

9 Dec 2010

Superfast Robotic Butcher Awarded Grand Prize

At the recent Fourth Robot Awards, in Japan, two industrial food-processing robots took top prizes. The first is a machine that looks downright terrifying -- just a long, sleek robot arm with a gleaming knife welded to one end. It's the HAMDAS-R, developed by Mayekawa Electric, and it's designed to remove ham bones -- a lot of them. Five hundred in an hour, this is twice as fast as a human’s capability to debone a ham.

By Andy Choi 8 Dec 2010

Coming to the ER Soon: TriageBot

At the Humanoids 2010 conference held in Nashville this week a paper was presented on robotic help in ERs (emergency rooms) by author Mitch Wilkes, titled,"Heterogeneous Artificial Agents for Triage Nurse Assistance". Wilkes is the associate director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University.

By Andy Choi 8 Dec 2010