Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums? 2012 saw a surge of sentiment in the press and blogosphere that we should think of programming as a vital ...
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Texas-based Foundation Surgical Hospital (FSH), an associated facility of Foundation Surgical Hospital Affiliates (FSHA), has purchased Mazor Robotics' Renaissance system, a surgical guidance system which is designed for use in spine ...
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UBM Canon has expanded its educational events aimed at the packaging field with new and improved seminars being held February, 2013. The WestPack Seminars will run concurrently with the WestPack exhibition. Building on the success in ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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The 2012 Duke's Choice Award Winners have been announced by Oracle in advance of the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, CA. Jelastic has been selected as the Technology Leader Award Winner. The 2012 Duke's Choice Award Winners have been ...
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Computerworld - The maker of Roomba, the robotic vacuum, has stepped up its game and Tuesday unveiled a 5-ft., 4-in.-tall, 140-pound "telemedicine" robot aimed at aiding hospital patients in emergency situations, especially during nighttime ...
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Despite advances in storage technology such as disk-based back-up, data de-duplication software and cloud-based storage, yesteryear's storage device – tape – is not dead, according to analysts and suppliers at SNW Europe 2012. ...
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Wynright Corporation, a leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems, today announced it has earned the new Certified Robot Integrator designation from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the ...
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Last week, the 8th Annual RoboBusiness Leadership Summit posted record attendance over three warms days in Pittsburgh, Pa. Home to Carnegie Mellon University and its famed Robotics Institute, the city is a strong contender for robotics ...
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Early on the opening day of Vision 2012, the German Engineering Federation – the VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau) presented the results of its latest survey of the machine vision marketplace. Based on factory order ...
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For the first time since 2009, Java founder James Gosling on Thursday morning appeared onstage at the JavaOne technical conference during a Java community keynote presentation. Gosling was a longtime Sun engineer but left Oracle shortly ...
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Harvard University researchers have developed a squishy robot that can disguise itself or change its color to stand out from its background. Those features, scientists say, could help surgeons plan complicated operations or aid search and ...
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AIMS 360 continues their celebration of remote technology and automation through the month of July. "In the past couple months we have been gearing our marketing and sales efforts towards our one-of-a-kind native iPad app, AIMS RemoteLink. ...
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Sunday night, marking a new chapter in America's space program. The rocket, carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, lifted off at 8:35 p.m. ...
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What you see before you is the first in a series of regular blogs that the ToyNews team - myself, Samantha and Dominic - will be writing for you every Friday. We very much hope that you’ll enjoy them and would love to hear what you ...
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