Mazor Robotics has performed robot-guided brain surgery using its robotic technology at the Horst Schmidt Kliniken hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany. In addition to brain biopsies, the company's robotic technology is applicable in the brain ...
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Robots have long captured our imagination. Now a new iPad app will show how robots are becoming reality. Robots for iPad, a fun and engaging app featuring the world's coolest robots, is now available in Apple's App Store. Created by IEEE ...
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Southwest NeuroSpine Institute in El Paso, Texas, US has purchased Mazor Robotics' Renaissance system, a robotic surgical guidance system, used for spine surgeries. Mazor Robotics claims that the platform is the only available robotic ...
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The DARPA Robotics Challenge, one of the most rigorous tests of robotic ability ever conceived, kicked off on Wednesday. The contest sets teams of engineers from around the US and the world a set of Herculean robot trials that promise to ...
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Take a look back at the glasstecs of the past few years and you might just find a noticeable difference in this year's staging. While the Solarpeq exhibition is still a part of the event,its presence is small compared to the past couple ...
This rates as one of the Toy Hype teams favourite stories ever! At the University of Delaware, Sunil Agrawal, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, approached Cole Galloway, a professor in the Department of Physical ...
Computerworld - A robotic arm onboard the International Space Station reached out and grabbed hold of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship today, attaching the commercial craft to the station. The station's Canadarm captured the spacecraft at ...
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When the materials handling and logistics industry's premier event,ProMat 2013,opens on January 21 it will include more than 800 exhibits and an comprehensive educational conference that will focus on solutions that increase the efficiency ...
Pallet and container pooling services provider in the US, CHEP has selected the Universal Robotics Spatial Vision Inspection (SVI) solution for automated 3D pallet inspection. SVI identifies pallet defects accurately and reliably and is ...
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A servo control motor is an electromechanical device that has an electrical input that helps identify the position of the armature of a motor.Servo mechanism simply speaks of a system where a feedback or error correcting signal helps in the ...
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PMMI,owner and producer of the Pack Expo trade shows,recently announced that Pack Expo International 2012(October 28-31;McCormick Place,Chicago),has sold out of exhibit space.The show will be the largest edition of the show since 2002,with ...
The Mars rover Curiosity is on a mission to deliver what scientists hope will be groundbreaking scientific research that wouldn't be possible without robotics,according to a NASA chief engineer. "It's critical to this mission,"said Louise ...
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Researchers hope they can sharply reduce the number of car accidents by enabling vehicles to communicate with each other--and they're putting the theory to the test in Ann Arbor,Mich. On Tuesday,researchers at the University of Michigan ...
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It seems like we can expect amazing things from the Leap when it launches next year. Leap Motion reports that it has been flooded with requests for developer units, and an impressive assortment of unique and innovative applications for the ...
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The eye has inspired robot vision steering at Georgia Tech. Key to the control system is a muscle-like piezoelectric actuator. In muscle,many small actuator units are connected in series or in parallel. "The actuators developed in ...
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