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Technology
Will Robots Make Farm Work a 24/7 Business?
Research that Matters: EU Robotics Aims for the Marketplace
Bug Killer: Microorganisms Beware the Xenon Robot

Perfect Timing: Willow Garage Spins Off Itself
Willow Garage needs to stop the show, take a deep breath and then re-invent itself for the marketplace. (February 12, 2013)

Most Advanced Robotics Test Center in U.S. Opens
NERVE Center is the only robotics test site in the Northeast and one of only three in the nation. (February 08, 2013)

Six Nobel Laureates on Innovation vs. Metrics
"That Used to Be Us" We can be Us again, can’t we? (February 08, 2013)

Bug Killer: Microorganisms Beware the Xenon Robot
In the U.S. about 1 of every 20 patients gets an infection while hospitalized and up to 98,000 die from these each year (February 01, 2013)

Automate 2013: Innovative Robotiq Gripper and Teach System Address Growing Market Need
Making the use of robotics an expensive proposition because the jobs change frequently. (January 28, 2013)

What’s Winter Without a Robotic Snowplow?
Autonomous lawnmower competition in Ohio has led to two companies developing self-guided mowers for the consumer market. Why not snowplows? (January 26, 2013)

Georgia Tech Center Probes Robotic Frontiers
Automating the art of neuroscience and the accuracy of human vision, scientists at Georgia Tech are readying robotic research for commercial transfer (January 18, 2013)

Extreme Robots from Howe & Howe Technologies
Customers run the tough-job gamut from emergency response to the U.S. military to Hollywood’s newest Mad Max remake “Fury Road”. (January 18, 2013)

Frito-Lay and Wynright Put Robots on the Docks
While much of the warehouse has benefitted from automation, the loading dock is still primarily a manual operation. (January 12, 2013)

Mining Giant Anglo-American Inks Deal with Carnegie Mellon
“Working with top robotics experts is essential to our technology and innovation programs,” said Anglo-American's Donovan Waller. (January 09, 2013)

In-depth Analysis
Robots That Help Children
Robots can provide a perfect bridge between the human and technological worlds. (January 03, 2013)

In-depth Analysis
Once More, with Feeling: Tactile Sensors for Mechatronic Systems
BioTac shares an important characteristic with human fingers: a fingerprint, (January 03, 2013)

Using Massive Human Brainpower to Develop Robots
Could knotty technical problems in robotics that have eluded researchers in their laboratories be better and more quickly solved by the collective intelligence of an online community? (January 01, 2013)

Rethink & Universal Upbeat for 2013 with New-Gen Factory Workers
Can't call them Next-Gen any longer, because they're here and ready to work. (December 29, 2012)

Our Machine Friends: A New Yorker Retrospective
A New Yorker retrospective of Human-Robot Interaction (December 29, 2012)



Special Focus: Top Transactions
Top Transactions

All of the robotics industry’s top reported orders, sales, investments, mergers & acquisitions and financial events of 2012 now available in one downloadable doc!


Medrobotics Closes on $10M in Financing

Robotics’ Top Transactions 2012

Finally, UK Funds Big Boost in Robotics: $55M

Persimmon Technologies Closes Series B Funding with $5.8M

Medrobotics Completes $33.6M in Series D Financing
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