Swisslog Enters Autonomous Mobile Robot Market with SpeciMinder and RoboCourier
Swisslog, a leading provider of automated materials transport and pharmacy automation solutions for hospitals, announced that it has entered the autonomous mobile robot market with the introduction of Swisslog SpeciMinder and Swisslog RoboCourier in North America.
SpeciMinder and RoboCourier will be manufactured for Swisslog by CCS Robotics, Inc., widely recognized as a national leader in the development of autonomous mobile robots for commercial applications within hospitals and laboratories. SpeciMinder robots produced by CCS Robotics have…
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Tagged: Pharmacy automation, Swisslog, Ccs robotics, Speciminder, Robocourier, Materials transport
Myomo Neuro-Robotic Technology Restores Use of Paralyzed Limbs
Northeast Senior Health is the first organization in the nation to implement Myomo, an innovative stroke rehabilitation technology, in the skilled nursing and home care environments. Northeast HomeCare, Ledgewood Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center and Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, all programs of Northeast Senior Health, recently implemented the Myomo System.
Northeast HomeCare is the first home care agency to implement Myomo and Ledgewood and Seacoast are the…
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Tagged: robotics, robot, rehabilitation, service robotics, paralyzed, northeast senior health, stroke, neuro-robotic
South Fulton Medical Center First in Georgia to Purchase Prosurgics’ Laparoscopic Camera Controller
Surgical robotics company Prosurgics announces the first sale of a FreeHand laparoscopic camera controller in Georgia.
Supporting the Atlanta metro area, the South Fulton Medical Center is a modern facility known for medical innovation and state-of-the-art equipment. Two top surgeons, Dr. Kevin Edmonds and Dr. Vijaykumar Patel, performed a series of surgeries this fall using FreeHand. Dr. Edmonds, an OB/GYN surgeon, used it for laparoscopic hysterectomies and other cases. Dr. Patel, a general surgeon, performed several…
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Tagged: South fulton medical center, Laparoscopic surgery, Laparoscopic camera controller, Prosurgics, Robotic surgery, Freenhand
Harvest Automation, Inc. Receives $4.0M Series A Financing
Harvest Automation, Inc., a robotics company developing solutions for material handling, today announced that it has secured $4.0M in Series A financing from three leading venture firms including Life Sciences Partners (LSP), the Midpoint Food & Ag Fund, and MTDC.
The HarvestAI team is made up of engineers and executives who have invented and successfully brought to market many leading…
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Tagged: Robot, Robotics, Midpoint food & ag funds, Materials handling, Massachusetts technology development corporation, Life sciences partners, Harvest automation
Luna Innovations and Intuitive Surgical Expand Relationship
Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA) announced that it will be extending its development and supply agreement with Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) to continue integrating Luna’s shape sensing technology into Intuitive’s products.
In June 2007, Luna and Intuitive entered into a multi-year development and supply agreement in which Luna would supply its fiber optic based shape sensing system for integration into Intuitive’s medical robotics products…
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Tagged: Robot, Robotics, Shape sensing , Luna innovations, Intuitive surgical , Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, Da vinci surgical system, Minimally invasive surgery
NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
Beginning Jan. 18, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008.
The solar-powered lander operated two months longer than its three-month prime mission during summer on northern Mars before the seasonal…
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Tagged: robotics, robot, mars, mars odyssey, phoenix, Mars lander, nasa, odyssey
Carnegie Mellon Engineers Develop Machine That Visually Inspects and Sorts Strawberry Plants
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants and then mechanically sort them by quality — tasks that until now could only be done manually.
In a successful field test this fall, the machine classified and sorted harvested plants more consistently and faster than workers could, with a comparable error rate.
“We’re looking forward to…
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Tagged: harvester, robotics, nrec, National robotics engineering center, robot, carnegie mellon university, cmu, strawberry
GE Aviation and AAI Perform First Trajectory-Based Flight on Unmanned Aircraft System
GE Aviation and AAI Corporation, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Army performed the first “proof of concept” flight demonstrations of an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) controlled with a GE Flight Management System (FMS) certified for use in commercial manned aircraft. These flights used the AAI Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System controlled by the GE Aviation FMS as part of the UAS FAA & Industry Team (UFIT) Cooperative Research and…
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Tagged: Robot, Unmanned aircraft system, Ge aviation, Textron systems, Robotic, Aai, General electric
Scarlet Knight Underwater Robotic Glider Crosses the Atlantic
The Scarlet Knight, the first submersible robot glider to cross the Atlantic, made its formal entrance into the port of Baiona on December 09, 2009 and was received by Spanish and American government officials, school children and the people of the town.
The Scarlet Knight, in the Investigador’s zodiac, arrived in Baiona’s harbor.
Baiona, a resort…
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Tagged: Robot, Uuv, Robotics, Scarlet knight, Unmanned underwater vehicle, Rutgers university
Touch Bionics Unveils World’s First Bionic Finger
Touch Bionics, developer of advanced upper-limb bionic technologies, announced the commercial launch of ProDigits, the world’s first powered bionic finger solution for patients with missing fingers. Now partial-hand patients have a dexterous powered solution to support their return to function and independence.
Created by the company responsible for market-leading bionics like the i-LIMB Hand, the ProDigits solution extends life-changing technology to partial-hand patients, whose finger…
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Tagged: Prosthetics, Bionic finger, Touch bionics, I-limb hand, Amputee, Prodigits
