Ascent Solar Technologies has been selected to provide thin-film photovoltaic modules for use in Bye Aerospace’s Silent Sentinel hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle.
Norway’s Seabed Rig AS, a developer sea bed drilling rigs, has contracted with Cambridge, Mass based Energid Technologies on advanced control systems that enable robotic oil and natural gas drilling.
TechPoint, an economic initiative focused on Indiana’s technology sector, has bestowed its MIRA “Innovation of the Year” awarded to Precise Path Robotics for its RG3 fully automated robotic golf course conditioning and maintenance mower.
MIT spin-off Bluefin Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Battelle, provides Canada’s ING Engineering sub-surface search, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
The innovative Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments (RAPHaEL), developed by Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory of the College of Engineering came in first place in the recent 2008-2009 Compressed Air and Gas Institute’s Innovation Award Contest.
By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a laser ranging system that can pinpoint multiple objects with nanometer precision over distances up to 100 kilometers.
“Wipe-up bug” prototype scrubs out spots with nanocloth-clad body.
NIST creates laser system for ultraprecise navigation of satellites or, potentially, robots.
Wang Jhing-fa, center, a professor of electronic engineering at National Cheng Kung University, shows off what the university says is the world’s smallest voice-activated robot, during a press conference yesterday.
Troubleshooting system designed to help techs identify, repair problems with Motoman robotic arms.
New products designed for tight spaces, complex products.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is now offering the pediatric version of the Lokomat robot-assisted walking therapy.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has found that real-time, multiple-degree control of advanced prosthetic arms can be enhanced through a new pattern recognition technique called pattern-recognition control when used in combination with a Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) procedure.
Idaho National Laboratories has developed a kernel that can run on many robots, giving similar capabilities to controllers, whether they’re inspecting the inside of oil pipelines, or dark, flooded smuggler’s tunnels.
Gecko projects the market for elder-care personal robots will grow rapidly during the next half decade.
Textron Systems’ unmanned Aerosonde Mark 4-Series aircraft executes fully autonomous flight in simultaneous operation two additional Orbiter unmanned aircraft.
The University of Washington has surpassed its own world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips hundreds of miles in length under the ice at Davis Strait.
Skilligent, Inc will supply a vehicle control system for agricultural Jatropha harvesters built by BEI International.
The digging-in of Spirit’s wheels has raised concerns that the rover’s belly pan could now be low enough to contact rocks underneath the chassis, which would make getting out of the situation more difficult.
A new model and computer algorithm, which could have a major impact on the filed of artificial intelligence, considers a range of possible data structures for a data set, finds the best-fitting structure of each type for a given data set and then picks the type of structure that best represents the data.
A factory north of Stockholm has been fined $3,000 for a 2007 incident in which a robot manipulator grabbed a worker’s head as he approached to make repairs.