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1. NASA Expands Order for Innova Robotics & Automation’s Universal Robot Controller

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 28, 2007

Controller Will Increase the Rate of Movement Commands and Synchronize Responses Between Virtual and Physical Robots

2. KUKA Robotics Selected by Transbotics Corporation to Supply Robotics for Automatic Guided Vehicle

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 28, 2007

KUKA Robots Integrated into Automatic Trailer Loading System Streamlines Material Handling Process

3. Videre Design LLC Extends Product Line to Include Next-Generation Robot Platform

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 26, 2007

Videre Design LLC extends product line to include next-generation robot platform.

4. Robotics Company Announces Advances in Voice Interactive Systems

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 23, 2007
Energid Technologies Corporation today announced a significant breakthrough in human-machine collaboration technology. Based on software being developed for the Air Force, Energid’s Multi-Modal Dialog Architecture allows a human to interact and collaborate realistically with…

5. The Second Humanoid Robot in France

Personal Robotics | Feb 23, 2007
The HOAP3 humanoid robot has just arrived at the Laboratory for Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM – CNRS – University of Montpellier 2). This platform supplements the one that was installed…

6. Microchip Technology Adds The MathWorks Plug-ins to Free MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment

Design and Development | Feb 19, 2007

MATLAB®, Simulink® and Real-Time Workshop® Software Plug-ins Added to MPLAB IDE Version 7.51

7. Scientists Link Unmanned Vehicles with Network for Homeland Security

Security & Defense Robotics | Feb 19, 2007

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have developed unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, but the real innovati

8. Robotic Whiskers Can Sense Three-Dimensional Environment

Academics and Research | Feb 19, 2007

Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying the whisker system of rats to better understand how mechanical information from the whiskers gets transmitted to the brain. Now they have developed arrays of robotic whiskers that sense in two dimensions and that can sense information about both object shape and fluid flow. The arrays could find application on assembly lines, in pipelines or on land-based autonomous rovers or underwater vehicles.

9. CCAT San Diego Announces Commercialization Services Awardees

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 19, 2007
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) in San Diego, California announced the presentation of business service awards to two small companies that have designed and engineered existing prototype technologies for use in…

10. Boeing ScanEagle Team Achieves Compliance with NATO UAV Interoperability Standard

Security & Defense Robotics | Feb 19, 2007
The Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Insitu, Inc., ScanEagle team has gained compliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) interoperability standard. The standard, also known as Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4586,…

11. MIT Uses Draganfly Innovations RC Helicopters in their UAV Swarm Health Management Project

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 19, 2007

Using an electric RC helicopter called a Draganflyer (manufactured by Draganfly Innovations Inc) MIT is developing a system to allow multiple flying craft to work together under computer control, performing surveillance and monitoring tasks. MIT calls this their UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Swarm Health Management Project.

12. Carnegie Mellon Software Steers NASA’s Mars Rover

Service Robotics | Feb 18, 2007

First Test of New Autonomous Capability on Mars is Promising

13. Real-Time Systems GmbH presents Real-Time Hypervisor Software

Design and Development | Feb 18, 2007

New Real-Time Hypervisor Software allows safe, parallel and independent deployment of multiple Operating Systems on single Hardware Platforms while preserving hard real-time behavior

14. Carnegie Mellon Software Steers NASA’s Mars Rover

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 18, 2007

First Test of New Autonomous Capability on Mars is Promising

15. Revell Monogram Announces VEX Robotics System for Retail Market

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 18, 2007
Revell Monogram today announced details of VEXplorer, its first robotics product for the retail market. VEXplorer is a robotics system that provides endless opportunities for novice inventors and robotics fanatics to build and operate…

16. New PicRite(R) Robotic Pallet Building System Announced by CAPE Systems

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 14, 2007

New Product Automates Robotic Pallet Building

17. FIRST Announces Rockwell Automation’s Sponsorship of Innovation in Control Award

Personal Robotics | Feb 14, 2007
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) today announced Rockwell Automation as sole sponsor of the FIRST Robotics Competition “Innovation in Control Award” for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Building on the…

18. Speci-Minder™ Autonomous Robot Helps Hospitals Speed Lab Results

Service Robotics | Feb 14, 2007

Robotic automated “Frances” delivers medical samples, frees staff to attend to patients

19. Evolution Robotics Joins Industry in Sponsorship of RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition

Security & Defense Robotics | Feb 14, 2007

Provider of Vision and Autonomous Navigation Solutions Returns to International Business Development Event for the Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics Industry

20. Adept Technology Signs Exclusive Licensing Agreement for High Speed Robotics for the Packaging Marke

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 12, 2007

Adept will own all Intellectual Property (IP) associated with the commercialization of the Quattro product line including the final manufactured design and the integration of controls, vision and tracking software into the robot.

21. Revell Monogram Announces VEX Robotics System for Retail Market

Personal Robotics | Feb 12, 2007
Revell Monogram has announced details of VEXplorer, its first robotics product for the retail market. VEXplorer is a robotics system that provides endless opportunities for novice inventors and robotics fanatics to build and operate…

22. iRobot Introduces Next-Generation Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot

Security & Defense Robotics | Feb 11, 2007

Soldiers Applaud Easy-to-Use Game-Style Controller of New Faster, Stronger iRobot PackBot 510 with EOD Kit

23. The Technology Collaborative Issues RFP for Tech Commercialization - Plans $1.6M in Grants to PA-bas

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 11, 2007

- Proposals now being accepted for developments in digital & analog electronics, robotic technologies & applications, cyber security
- TTC will hold bidder conferences across PA

24. ITRI Adopts Evolution Robotics Software Platform For Robotics Development

Robotics Trends Feature | Feb 08, 2007

Government initiative aims to make Taiwan a world leader in robotics

25. Controlbot Makes Patented Robotics Control Technology Available for License

Design and Development | Feb 08, 2007

A powerful robotics combination: Internet control and short-range wireless devices

26. Robotics Trends Welcomes Microsoft as Sponsor of the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition

Security & Defense Robotics | Feb 06, 2007

Microsoft Returns to the International Business Development Event for the Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics Industry

27. Energid Technologies’ Announces Multi-Modal Dialog Architecture