New Motion Card provides a compact Stand-Alone format, downloadable programming capabilities, and Ethernet connectivity.
For their liquid hydrogen-powered Global Observer Unmanned Aircraft System, designed to operate in the stratosphere for up to seven days without landing, AeroVironment will make use of Rockwell Collins’ Athena 411 Inertial Navigation, Global Positioning, Air Data, Attitude, Heading, Reference System (INS/GPS/ADAHRS).
Scotland’s Touch Bionics receives accolades for their i-LIMB Hand at Limbless Association’s Prosthetic Product Innovation Award gala dinner. The i-LIMB Hand is a first-to-market prosthetic device with five individually powered digits.
Spirit and Opportunity’s three month Mars exploration mission, now in its fifth year, is a phenomenal success by any measure.
Recon Scout, a throwable, mobile surveillance robot initially developed at the University of Minnesota, can be used by police and military personnel to get inside information about dangerous or hostile environments.