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NOAA Research Vessel Utilizes ROV to Survey Fish Species

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has anchored its latest $55 million worth research vessel named ‘Bell M Shimada’ in San Diego. The vessel will be deployed for scientific research operations along the West Coast.

27 Oct 2010

Team FREDNET Receives ILDD Contract for Robotic Lunar Mission

Team Frednet, an open-source non-profit organization, has declared that it has received Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract from NASA offering the highest government procurement value of $10.01 million.

27 Oct 2010

Schneider Packaging Receives Fanuc Robotics’ CSI Designation

Schneider Packaging Equipment has announced that FANUC Robotics has acknowledged their company as a Certified Servicing Integrator (CSI) in FANUC’s group of Authorized Integrators.

From Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc. 27 Oct 2010

Pearson Packaging Releases Robotic MPI-300 System

Pearson Packaging Systems has launched MPI-300, a novel multipacking robotic system, which can function at rates up to 300 products per minute, per product line.

27 Oct 2010

Japanese Prof Invents Insect Control Humanoid After Buddy Attacked

A friend of Professor Hisashi Sekine was stung about 90 times when trying to spray wasp nests to exterminate them. This caused Professor Hisashi Sekine from Utsunomiya, Japan to invent a remote controlled robot which can climb a ladder and spray the wasp nests.

By Andy Choi 26 Oct 2010

Scottish Team Shoots for Robot Football Glory

The 2011 robot football world cup is being eagerly awaited at the University of Edinburgh where researchers are preparing one of the first teams that will compete in the event.

By Andy Choi 26 Oct 2010

First Humanoid in Space

The first Humanoid is ready to go into space after 15 years of behind the scenes preparation. The robot called Robonaut 2 is set for a trip on the space shuttle Discovery on the first of November this year.

By Andy Choi 26 Oct 2010

Canadian Space Agency Awards Contract for Robotic Arm

Toronto based robotics company, Engineering Services Inc., is to build a robotic arm which be a prototype for use on a Mars or Lunar rover. They have been awarded a $3 million contract from the Canadian Space Agency for the project.

By Andy Choi 26 Oct 2010

New Robotic Gripper

Lifting up a needle or a book may seem easy to human hands but to a robot it can be quite challenging. This is the challenge that a new robotic gripper hopes to address with new shape shifting technology.

From iRobot Corporation 26 Oct 2010

Flexicell to Demonstrate Robotic Palletizing and Packaging Products at Pack Expo

Flexicell, a leading supplier of robotic solutions for packaging industry, will demonstrate its robotic collating, picking and palletizing products in booth 3651 at PACK EXPO 2010, which will be held at the McCormick Place, Chicago, between October 31 and November 3.

26 Oct 2010

EuroBLECH to Include Vitronic’s Latest Machine Vision Products

Vitronic has announced that it will demonstrate VIROwsi and VINSPEC, the latest machine vision products, in hall 13 at EuroBLEC 2010 the world’s biggest trade fair for sheet metal operations which will be held in Hanover, Germany from October 26 to 30.

26 Oct 2010

UAF Team to Assess Payloads for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UAF) team, comprising members from the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and the Northwest Aerial Robotics Cluster (NWARC), has received $47 million worth Basic Ordering Agreement award from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division.

26 Oct 2010