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Omnicell to Supply Automated Medication Solutions to Orange Regional

Omnicell Inc., a leading provider of automated systems for healthcare facilities, has declared that Orange Regional Medical Center had selected their company for supplying automated medication systems.

19 Oct 2010

Rise of the Machines Event to feature KASPAR Robot

Researchers at the Hertfordshire University headed by Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn have developed Kinesics and Synchronization in the Personal Assistant Robot (KASPAR), a child-sized robot for teaching Autistic children social interaction.

19 Oct 2010

Benshaw to Supply Custom Automated Controls to Microblend

Benshaw, a business unit of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, has made an agreement with Microblend Technologies for supplying custom automated controls for Microblend’s Automated Paint Machine system that has pioneered the entire paint selling process.

19 Oct 2010

British Automation and Robotics Association to Organize Machine Safety Conference

British Automation and Robotics Association (BARA) has collaborated with Drives & Controls for organizing Machine Safety Conference at Bletchley Park on November 9.

19 Oct 2010

Taipei Flora Expo to Feature Asustek’s Robotic Flowers

Asustek Computer has announced that it will display its Florabot at the 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo in the Pavilion of Dreams which will be held from November 6, 2010 to April 25, 2011.

19 Oct 2010

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