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08/01/06 — The cruise is a joint expedition between Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Nautilus Minerals Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, a mining exploration company that holds exploration leases in the Bismarck Sea within the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea. Nautilus is the first firm to commercially explore the ocean…
2nd Annual GlobalSpec Great Moments in Engineering Award Presented to Team Behind Deep Water Vehicle
07/21/06 — A team of engineering professionals from the Deep Submergence Laboratory of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, whose work in developing a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) prototype resulted in the first detailed deep-water video images of the sunken luxury ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic, was presented with the 2006 GlobalSpec Great Moments in…
05/03/06 — The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) in San Diego, California today announced that the program is accepting applications from entrepreneurs, government laboratories and academic researchers who have designed robotics technologies that can be used in military and defense applications. The Department of Defense (DoD)-supported CCAT program awards funding…
04/30/06 — MuscleMorph Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition Grand Prize with Novel New Motion Technology; Lightweight, Efficient Motor Uses Polymers to Mimic Biological Muscles For Prosthetics, Robotics Student team, MuscleMorph, whose technologically advanced motor is lighter, higher performing and more cost efficient than any currently offered, won the $20,000 grand prize of…
04/30/06 — Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, announced a major medical device automation program with Insulet Corporation for the OmniPod(TM) Insulet Management System, a disruptive technology for insulin delivery in diabetes management. The OmniPod System integrates insulin infusion and blood glucose monitoring…
04/30/06 — KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, announced it has signed Zepnick Solutions Inc. of Green Bay, Wisconsin as its newest system partner. The addition of KUKA Robotics’ newest partner continues the company’s expansion in Wisconsin and in the food and beverage packaging industry. Zepnick Solutions, Inc.…
04/26/06 — Innova Holdings, Inc. (IVHG:OTCBB), a robotics and automation technology company providing software and hardware systems-based solutions to the service, personal, and industrial robotic markets, announced today that Joseph Gonzales has been chosen to fill the newly created position of Director of Corporate Communications. “As Innova Holdings continues forging ahead to…
Innova Holdings Receives Order for Universal Robot Controller From Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univers
04/18/06 — Innova Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: IVHG), a robotics and automation technology company providing software and hardware systems-based solutions to the service, personal, and industrial robotic markets, announced that it has received an order for the Universal Robot Controller™ (URC™) and a robot from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). The parties entered…
04/03/06 — Robots are on the march again into the last bastion of labour intensive industry - farming and horticulture. Warwick researchers are working on a suite of robots and automated systems which could transform farming and horticulture over the next decade. The researchers from the University of Warwick’s horticultural arm, Warwick…
03/29/06 — QinetiQ has completed the first flight trials of Zephyr - a High-Altitude, Long-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HALE UAV) that has a 12 metre wingspan but weighs just 27 kilograms. The trials took place at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA. Two aircraft were flown for four and a…
03/24/06 — The Russian Navy is setting up a rapid response, air transportable rescue system which can be rushed to the assistance of stricken submariners. The underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) that forms the main part of this package will come from British company Seaeye Marine who has been awarded the contract…
03/20/06 — What is involved here is a high-performance handling robot the structure of which is basically four actuators working in a co-ordinated manner with the goal of achieving maximum dynamic performances. The robot has four degrees of freedom, displacements along three translations and rotates on its vertical axis. It is a…
03/20/06 — Researchers from the CAS Institute of Optics and Electronics in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, have been successful in building China’s first robot for searching and retrieving underwater foreign objects in nuclear power stations. The equipment is now being used in the Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station,…
03/16/06 — SUNNYVALE, CA, Mar 16, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network)—Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG), the industry leader in surgical robotics, today announced the addition of Marshall L. Mohr to its management team as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mohr joins Intuitive Surgical from Adaptec, Inc. where…
03/06/06 — A mechanical engineer at Purdue University is teaming up with medical doctors in research aimed at developing less expensive, portable and versatile surgical robots that could become more common in operating rooms. The researchers also are trying to incorporate tactile sensors into the robots to enable surgeons to feel tissue…
03/05/06 — LynuxWorks™ Inc. announced it was chosen as the embedded operating system (OS) vendor of choice for the Military R-Gator™, an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle developed by iRobot Corp. and John Deere. iRobot is utilizing LynuxWorks’ BlueCat® Linux®, a commercial-grade embedded operating system based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, to power…
03/03/06 — VideoRay revealed additional information and provided additional still pictures regarding the month-long underwater search for Scot Radel, a 21 year old college student in St. Cloud MN who fell into the Mississippi river on February 2, 2006, and was found March 1, 2006. After an initial investigation by the St.…
02/15/06 — Rockwell Collins and teammates Oshkosh Truck Corporation and the University of Parma, have successfully demonstrated their Intelligent Vehicle Management System (iVMS) on an Oshkosh® Palletized Loading System (PLS) heavy logistics vehicle. The test was conducted on January 23 and 24 at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. The team demonstrated how…
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