1. Braintech Inc. to Open New Multi-Purpose Detroit Area Office
Robotics Trends Feature | Dec 22, 2008Developer of vision guided robotics solutions opens Detroit area sales, engineering and research office.
Archive Listing
2. California Polytechnic State University Orders an Iver2 AUV
Service Robotics | Dec 22, 2008OceanServer Technology to provide Cal Poly with a Iver2 AUV including the VectorMap mission planning and data presentation tool.
3. Carnegie Mellon, U at Buffalo Collaborate on $4.7 Million Project To Advance Public Transportation
Academics and Research | Dec 16, 2008Father-Son team to combine human-robot interaction and intelligent transportation systems expertise, together with architectural design knowledge, for Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Accessible Public Transportation.
4. Carnegie Mellon Developing Automated Systems To Enable Precision Farming of Apples, Oranges
Academics and Research | Dec 16, 2008The Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops (CASC) Program and the Integrated Automation for Sustainable Specialty Crop Farming Project at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have received a total of $10 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build automated apple and orange farming systems.
5. KUKA Robotics Introduces New Food Series Robots
Service Robotics | Dec 14, 2008KUKA Robotics Corporation premiers its new Food Series Option at Pack Expo. The Food Series Option Food Series takes options already available from KUKA, and re-packages them as a food handling option that can incorporated onto a select group of current KUKA products.
6. Estonian Ministry of Defence to Acquire Two Hydroid REMUS 100 UAVs for the Navy
Service Robotics | Dec 12, 2008Sophisticated sensor and navigation capabilities found in Hydroid’s REMUS UAVs required to accomplish mine countermine (MCM) tasks.
7. Evolution Robotics’ NorthStar 2.0 Wins Robotics Development Innovator Award
Design and Development | Dec 01, 2008Low cost, intelligent navigation system based on proprietary micro-GPS technology wins the first annual RoboDevelopment Innovator Award at RoboDevelopment 2008 Conference and Exposition.