Military / Medical / Vehicles

Health Robotics today announced an exclusive agreement with Can-Med, a leading IV Solution provider and medical device company in the Republic of Turkey,, in order to safely, accurately, and cost-effectively automate the preparation of life-critical patient-specific Oncology IV Admixtures with Health Robotics’ CytoCare(TM). For more please visit the link below. Reference: marketwatch.com/news/story/health-robotics-announces-new-exclusive/story.aspx?guid=%7B8682D52E-B40A-43FF-B85D-86C76F44FD6A%7D&dist=hppr Read More

The UAVs called MQ-9 reaper, can carry four Hellfire missiles and two 500-pound laser guided bombs, and remain aloft tracking a target for long periods of time and are also know as Hunter reaper drone.The drones cost between 200 to 300 million dollars each. By making use of the drones, both countries are hoping to provide the same level of protection of its own forces […] Read More

A new hi tech imaging technique developed in Germany using an imaging robot called “Nanozoomer” makes it possible for the first time to automatically reproduce and evaluate tissue slices in ultra high resolution and in various planes. Researchers are calling this a quantum leap in tissue research. Please click below for original article at upi. Reference: upi.com/Science_News/2008/07/07/Robot_imager_evaluates_tiny_tissue_slices/UPI-12941215446635/ Read More

A precise heart surgery has been performed in Melbourne, Australia, to remove a tumour from a delicate region of a 77 old woman’s heart. The robotic system called “da Vinci” which has been used by the hospital since 2004, has performed about 200 operations so far. The robot copies the movements of heart surgeons with much more presicion and reduces the hand tremors to zero. […] Read More

Company Receives $3.3 Million Award to Develop Cutting-Edge Robots that Help Soldiers Gain Access to Denied or Hostile Areas BEDFORD, Mass.(BUSINESS WIRE)iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) today announced the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office have awarded the company a new multi-year, multi-million dollar R&D project to develop Chemical Robots (ChemBots). The goal of this program is to develop a […] Read More

UT Health Science Center, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care have removed more kidney, bladder tumors with the technology than any academic center in Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Dipen Parekh, M.D., a urologic oncologist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, deftly operates the handles and pedals of a console located 6 feet away from his patient’s operating table. The handles and pedals […] Read More

Health Robotics announces IV Station (TM Pending) a centrallycontrolled, modular, distributed, flexible, redundant, patient-specific intra-venous (IV) Automation Robot for non-hazardous drug preparation, compounding, and dispensing in central pharmacylocations, satellite pharmacies, and even patient care workplaces.Health Robotics, the worldwide leader in the robotic automation of patient specific IV Admixtures today announced IV Station (TM Pending), a new IV automation solution that complements CytoCare™, the company’s award […] Read More

SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, today announced that it has developed and demonstrated robust wall-climbing robots using a new electrical adhesive technology called compliant electroadhesion. SRI Senior Mechanical Engineer Harsha Prahlad, Ph.D. will provide an overview of SRI’s electroadhesion technology at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 23, 2008 at the Pasadena Conference Center in Pasadena, Calif.Electroadhesion […] Read More

iRobot Receives Award to Develop Small Mobile Communications Relay Robot – Empowering Warfighters with Ad-Hoc Communications In Theater. BURLINGTON, Mass., March 3, 2008 – iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) today announced it has received an award under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) LANdroids program.Through this multi-year robotics research and development program, iRobot will develop a new portable communications relay robot that is small, inexpensive, […] Read More

A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide. In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Professor Noel Sharkey, from the University´s Department of Computer Science, will express his concerns that we are beginning to see the first steps […] Read More