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Goodrich Awarded Contract to Develop Shortwave Infrared Sensor Onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Under the terms of the contract Goodrich’s SUI team, headquartered in Princeton, N.J., will develop a SWIR camera payload assembly. The…
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QinetiQ Completes World’s First In-Flight Demo of Multiple Unmanned Aircraft Autonomy System
Central to the QinetiQ demonstration, undertaken as part of a Ministry of Defence funded programme, was a BAC1-11 twin-jet aircraft that has been converted into a surrogate UAV. In addition to controlling the BAC1-11 ‘remotely’, an operator directed a package of simulated UAVs at a strategic…
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iRobot Corp. Sponsors RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition
According to Dan Kara, conference chairman and President of Robotics Trends, “We are delighted that iRobot has once again joined the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition as Founding Sponsor. iRobot is one of the leading companies within the…
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Sagem Défense Sécurité Chosen by France’s DGA to Conduct Study on Future Joint Tactical UAVs
The challenge of the DVI study – which lays the base for future UAV programs – lies in defining a UAV capable of carrying out a wide range of missions in diverse theaters, from takeoff in mountainous terrain and in hot weather to landing on a frigate in extremely difficult aerological and maritime conditions.
The solution being…
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RoboBusiness Call for Presentations
Deadline: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Conference Description: Robotics Trends’ RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition is the only industry event dedicated to the issue of applying emerging mobile robotics and intelligent systems technology to develop entirely new products and markets, as well as enhance existing solutions and services. The event also addresses sales, marketing and partnering strategies. The RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition enables business decision makers…
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Robotics Trends, Inc. Announces 4th Annual RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition
According to Dan Kara, conference chairman and President of Robotics Trends, Inc., “We are extremely pleased to announce the 4th annual RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition. The success and yearly growth of RoboBusiness clearly demonstrates the need for an industry event dedicated to the commercial application of mobile robots…
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Center for Defense Robotics Awards Federally-Funded Robotics Technology Development Projects
* Four projects involved teaming PA-based companies and/or universities with entities outside PA
The National Center for Defense Robotics (NCDR), an initiative of The Technology Collaborative, today announced that during the Federal Government Fiscal Year 2006 (GFY06) ending September 30, 2006, it was awarded a total of 15 task orders totaling $5.065 million and in turn awarded 14 robotics technology development project sub- contracts totaling $4.335 million to 13 companies and universities, including eight based in Pennsylvania and five based outside…
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Technest Engaged by Army to Develop System to Optimize Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Performance Tracking
The SmartMTI system will be able to successfully detect, extract and track the locations and movement history of multiple targets in real time within any image data.
Technest’s design improvements to existing MTI technology include: random air vehicle motion mitigation; false alarm rate reduction; low bandwidth surveillance accuracy and efficiency; robust tracking of an unlimited number of targets; and, accurate target…
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Oshkosh Truck Awarded $1 Million from Defense Advanced Research Projects to Advance UGV Technology
Oshkosh Truck brings considerable experience to the Urban Challenge, having competed in each of the previous two challenges. In October 2005, the Oshkosh robotic truck, TerraMax, was one of only five entries to complete the course. Team Oshkosh…
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