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Boeing and iRobot Receive U.S. Air Force Contract

Boeing Co and iRobot have signed an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity agreement with the U.S. Air Force for providing the 70 model 310 SUGV robots to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) network.

19 Oct 2010

Quiet Logistics to Provide Warehouse Automation Solutions to Vampfangs

Quiet Logistics has declared that it has been selected by Vampfangs.com for offering Consumer Driven Fulfillment (CDF) services thereby helping them to quickly supply their retractable fangs.

18 Oct 2010

US Navy Awards Contract to Lockheed for Enhancing Automated Maritime Surveillance

Lockheed Martin has received a contract worth $24M for offering new technology upgrades like high-end audio processing and also new concepts for identifying and surveying submarines.

18 Oct 2010

Turkish Researchers Develop SURALP Humanoid

Researchers at the Istanbul's Sabanci University have developed SURALP, Turkey’s first humanoid robot.

18 Oct 2010

PBIOS 2010 Includes Detcon’s Industrial Automation Products

Detcon Inc will display its latest range of Smart Wireless products at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS 2010) in Booth D1-3 in Odessa, Texas between October 19 and 21.

18 Oct 2010

Wolverine3 Robotic Engine Completes First In-Flight Tests

Ricardo has declared that its heavy-fuel Wolverine3 engine for powering Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) has successfully accomplished its first in-flight tests at the Nevada National Security Site of the National Nuclear Security Administration.

18 Oct 2010

Researchers Deploy UBC-Gavia Robot to Explore Antarctic Ice Shelf

Scientists at the British Columbia University are researching the ice-shelves of Antartica between October 17 and November 12 with the help of UBC-Gavia, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which will traverse through deep ice-covered waters of Antarctica’s Erebus Glacier Tongue in McMurdo Sound of thickness 100 m whose latitude is 77° south.

18 Oct 2010

UHO Incorporates CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

Accuray Incorporated has declared that University Hospital of Ostrava (UHO) Clinic of Oncology has incorporated its CyberKnife robotic system for cancer treatment and has become the first Medical center in Czech Republic to include robotic surgery in cancer treatment.

18 Oct 2010

National 4-H Council and JC Penney Sponsor Robotics Project

National 4-H Council and JC Penney have granted $50,000 to Washington State University Extension 4-H (WSUE 4-H) for developing the 4-H program, a multi-county robotics project.

15 Oct 2010

Panasonic Releases GP-KH232 Camera for Machine Vision Applications

Panasonic has launched a new GP-KH232 HD Remote Head Camera System featuring a 1/3 inch CMOS sensor offering a high performance resolution of 1080p/60p from a HDMI output with multi-formatting video output abilities.

15 Oct 2010

Robotic Intravenous Automation’s First IV Solution Gets Released

Mission Health System has launched the first Intravenous solution produced by Intelligent Hospital Systems’ Robotic Intravenous Automation, a unit that can automatically fill IV bags and syringes.

15 Oct 2010

Health Robotics to Promote its Automated Systems in Seven New Countries

Health Robotics has declared that it has made a distribution contract with Newico and Apta Medica for providing reliable and cost-effective Intravenous Admixture Compounding Automation systems like CytoCare, i.v.STATION, and i.v.SOFT to seven new European countries including Bosnia, Croatia, Finland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.

15 Oct 2010

Google Develops Robotic Cars

Google has declared that its automated car project is developing robotic cars which are incorporated with an artificial intelligence software that helps to detect any object found near the car and to make effective decisions during driving.

15 Oct 2010

Embedded Live Event to Feature Roboteers Challenge

‘Embedded Live’, UK's biggest hardware and software design event will be held at the Earls Court, London between October 19 and 21.

15 Oct 2010

Indian Underwater ROV to Explore Polymetallic Nodules

India’s Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) which was built by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in collaboration with the Russian-based Experimental Design Bureau of Oceanological Engineering (EDBOE) has been deployed in the investigation of iron and manganese hydroxides rich polymetallic nodules at a depth of around 6000 m in the Central Indian Ocean Basin.

13 Oct 2010