National Children’s Medical Center, has appointed Craig Peters, MD Chief of Surgical Technology and Translation in Joseph E Robert, Jr., Center for Surgery and principal investigator for the initiative of Sheikh Zayed Biotechnology Innovation Institute of Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Peters is particularly interested in the application of robotics in pediatric   Read More ...

Cancer Patients is now treating by the CyberKnife robotic radio surgery system at the University Hospital of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. The CyberKnife robotic radio surgery system has already been used to deliver more than 100,000 treatments globally. It has been installed in leading hospitals in the Americas, Europe   Read More ...

GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging mobile robotics industry revolutionizing their development and usage with “Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(TM).” GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (pinksheets:GCKO) announced that they have enhanced the performance of their proprietary machine vision system, the CompoundedSensorArray(TM), while lowering its manufacturing costs. “Traditional   Read More ...

Chumby, the cute robotics device that has become a hacker’s delight because of its extensibility and Linux-based operating system, its allow users to play internet-based apps and music. The robot is using accelerometers from free scale to balance and walk. And while it is rather slow and clumsy, it’s a   Read More ...

BOISE — The Discovery Center started off a new annual event this weekend: the Boise ‘Bot Competition. The Boise ‘Bot Competition is a new annual event started by The Discover Center in this week. It’s a full of robotics activities weekend. People of all ages could take part in a   Read More ...

All the robots that end up supporting humans, those that carry out the dirty, dull and dangerous tasks will be the most commercially successful, the president of an American robot maker said. “Our goal is to change the world we live in, to solve very important and challenging problems that   Read More ...

The food production industry is place an advantage from productivity growth through increasing uptake of robotic technology that has been claimed. According to the food-production-daily report, currently the food sector only uses around 23,000 robotic technologies whereas the automotive market uses 364,000. However, following the recession, orders from the automotive   Read More ...