June 13, 2009

On June 9, 2009, Ronald B. Kuppersmith, MD, FACS, of Texas ENT and Allergy, successfully performed a Robot-assisted endoscopic thyroid lobectomy at the College Station Medical Center in College Station, Texas.

April 29, 2009

Forward-thinking Bristol Water has been testing a pair of innovative underwater cleaning robots to see whether they can be used to ensure customers continue to receive the purest supplies at the tap.

April 29, 2009

Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers find that outcomes of robotic assisted kidney cancer surgery, when performed by experienced surgeons at high volume centers, prove more beneficial to patients when compared to open surgery.

April 28, 2009

A company's robot unexpectedly attacked and seriously injured an employee. The company has since been found responsible for the accident and fined 25,000 SEK (about $2800 USD.)

April 21, 2009

OC Robotics has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. OC Robotics is the leading commercial manufacturer of snake-arm robots in the world. Snake-arm robots are flexible robotic arms which have many joints so they can "follow their nose" into confined spaces.

April 20, 2009

For the first time, ETH Zurich researchers have built micro-robots as small as bacteria. Their purpose is to help cure human beings.

April 20, 2009

Mechanical engineering students from ETH Zurich have developed an unmanned sailing boat in a focus project that can reach any given destination completely autonomously. The Avalon robot sailing boat is due to set sail from Ireland in the fall and head for the Caribbean.

March 23, 2009

Scientists have used a popular kids swimming pool game to guide their development of a system for controlling moving robots that can autonomously detect and capture other moving targets.

March 23, 2009

It may have been a fashion first, but supermodel Naomi Campbell has nothing to fear.

The HRP-4C humanoid robot showed off her stormtrooper-like silver and black frame and bowed to a fashion-savvy audience at the start of the annual Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo - but even her creators admit the mechanical model needs more work.

March 23, 2009

Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier.

March 15, 2009

Most snake robots, being biologically inspired, tend to look like real snakes: long, thin, and with a somewhat slithery motion. But a new snake robot design, called the trident snake robot, isn’t biologically inspired. Instead, it has a central “body” with three “branch legs,” each of which has a wheel.

March 15, 2009

Built from a simple Lego NXT kit, a new robotic system designed by a student of FEUP can identify different types of dance and music in an intelligent manner and is fully autonomous. The next step is to create and manage choreography between humanoid robots.

March 15, 2009

Imagine a day when you turn to your own personal robot, give it a task and then sit down and relax, confident that your robot is doing exactly what you wanted it to do.

So far, that autonomous, do-it-all robot is the stuff of science fiction or cartoons like "The Jetsons." But a Brown University-led robotics team has made an important advance: The group has demonstrated how a robot can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments — indoors as well as outside — all without adjusting for lighting.

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