Tech enthusiasts at South by Southwest Interactive exploring the exhibit hall's gizmos and apps on Sunday were greeted a little differently at one booth -- the figure approaching them was not a person but a television-sized monitor mounted ...
Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station. Tom Marshburn, a space station astronaut and flight ...
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After a successful liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon on Friday, the company's engineers were working on a glitch in the spacecraft's thruster system, delaying a Saturday rendezvous with the International Space Station. NASA reported earlier ...
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Roche and Hamilton Robotics have launched a new DNA sample enrichment platform for Roche's 454 GS Junior sequencer. The platform was built by integrating Roche's REM e System with Hamilton's Microlab NIMBUS NGS workstation, which uses ...
Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 2/25/2013 8:30:00 AM Delkor Systems opens new facility in St. Paul To accommodate its growth, Delkor Systems (a company that specializes in packaging equipment for cartoning, ...
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With robots increasingly being used on factory floors and elsewhere, researchers are looking for ways to help humans work better with their electromechanical counterparts. Scientists at MIT say the answer is cross-training: Humans and ...
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The North American robotics market has recorded its strongest year ever in 2012, according to new statistics from Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's trade group. A total of 22,598 robots valued at $1.48 billion were sold ...
Automate 2013, North America’s leading automation event, was attended by a record 10,975 attendees from across the United States and 55 countries. The event took place January 21-24 at McCormick Place in Chicago. “Automate ...
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With robots increasingly being used on manufacturing floors, researchers are looking for ways that humans can work better with their robot coworkers. Scientists at MIT say the answer is cross-training -- humans and robots switching jobs ...
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Digi-Key has signed two new supplier franchises military chip specialist Holt Integrated Circuits and cognitive memory supplier, CogniMem. CogniMem has developed a neural network architecture to resemble the synapses of the human ...
Spanish auto-parts supplier Gestamp Automocion has received a EUR150m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to upgrade its facilities in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Turkey that supply assembly lines set up by ...
Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra-scalable and interoperable Java and PHP hosting platform for cloud applications, today announced the launch of its free public beta in Sweden through Elastx, a Stockholm-based hosting provider. ...
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Teaching math and science has never been more engaging. A new product launched today, is allowing teachers to use quadcopters, robotic arms and rovers to teach math and science using dedicated educational apps aligned with mandated ...
Mazor Robotics has obtained regulatory approval for its surgical robotic system, designed for use in spine procedures, in Taiwan. The system, Renaissance, uses less radiation while performing complex spinal deformity cases as well as ...
Manufacturing, warehousing, material handling, supply chain automation— companies far and wide are incorporating robotics solutions into their materials handling processes; gaining substantial increases in efficiency, reduced costs ...
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