Space has always been at a premium in most dairy processing plants. With necessary machinery taking up a huge part of a facility's overall footprint, processors need to make the most of the space they do have for warehousing ? all the while attempting to cut down the time products...
The paper reveals that it is known that being the supplier of choice entails providing comprehensive packaging solutions to the customers. Robotics was a natural extension of the continuous product improvement effort. Easily integrated and supported by our existing line of case and tray erectors, formers and sealers, robotic loading...
The Robotics Specialist job description template includes the following job summary: To coordinate and lead a group of five to eight automation engineers and programmers to support projects and field services activities. To organize team and develop a professional approach to standardization of structured programming and documentation. Additional information available...
Rixan Associates and Millersville University partnered in 2004 to improve the development and design of the automation lab and control systems curriculum at Millersville University. Through this partnership Millersville University has gained a state-of-the-art industrial robotics facility that is essential to their Control Systems Industrial Technology programs. Rixan Associates has...
This white paper document describes in detail a process for synthesis of peptides and phosphopeptides on microtiter plate wells that overcomes previous limitations and demonstrates utility in determination of the epitope of an autophosphorylation site phospho-motif antibody and utility in substrate utilization assays of the protein tyrosine kinase, p60c-src.It also...
Service robotics products are becoming a reality. This paper describes three core technologies that enable the next generation of service robots. They are low-cost, make use of low-cost hardware, and prepare for a short time-to market for product development. The first technology is an object recognition system, which can be...
The expanding geographical sweep of supply chains reflects important advances in the area of logistics management. Some of these advances are linked to progress in computing, telecommunications and robotics technologies as well as to the accumulation of management expertise. Managers have integrated new technologies into their production and distribution processes...
This paper presents intelligent object distribution architecture to maximize the performance and intelligence of a distributed surgical robotics system and its preliminary implementation in an MR-guided surgical robot system in an open-configuration MRI scanner. The method enables networked integration of a robot control server and multiple clients with minimum engineering...
This white paper deals with an interprocess communications toolkit abstracts the transport mechanisms, such as shared memory or network protocols, away from the module developer. The goal is for the module developer to use the communications toolkit to write portable code which can be moved from platform to platform and...
M. Patrick Lowe, MD, renowned robotic surgeonand gynecologic oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, willdemonstrate the use of robotic surgery to treat endometrial cancer via alive interactive webcast on www.or-live.com Thursday, July 17at 3:00 p.m. CDT. Dr. Lowe, director of the robotics and minimally invasive surgical programfor the Division...
AZCAR Digital Products ADP, a division of AZCAR (TSX: AZZ), announces its partnership today with Shotoku Broadcast Systems, a leading manufacturer of manual and robotically controlled camera support products. The agreement establishes Shotoku as a significant manufacturer in ADP's catalog of quality equipment suppliers. AZCAR will sell and service these...
RE2, Inc., a leading developer ofintelligent modular manipulation systems, announced today that it has beencompetitively awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research SBIRprogram by the U.S. Navy to develop a Dexterous Manipulation System DMSfor mobile robots and explosive ordnance disposal EOD robotic platforms. Many of the manipulators currently available...
On Thursday, August 14, watch a Robotic-AssistedHysterectomy recorded from University Hospitals Case Medical Center inCleveland, Ohio. The procedure will be performed by Vivian von Gruenigan,MD, and moderated by Robert DeBernardo, MD. Robotic-assisted hysterectomy provides patients with a shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery time.During the webcast, viewers...
GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GCKO)announced today that they have further enhanced their advanced mobile robotcontroller board, the GeckoSPIOTM. GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader inthe emerging Mobile Service Robot MSR industry revolutionizing theirdevelopment and usage with mobile robot solutions for safety, security, andservice.TM. The newly enhanced GeckoSPIOTM 1.1 (sensor/power input/output)...
It's not as clever or cute asWALL-E, the robot starring in this summer's hit animated feature, but a newrobot being introduced by a defense unit of Cubic Corporation (AMEX: CUB)does do disposal duty -- bomb disposal. An unmanned ground system called COUGAR -- Combined Operations UnmannedGround Assessment Robot -- is...
New System Integrates High Resolution Inspection With Quattro s650 Robot, Streamlining Solar Cell Production LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, today announced it will preview its new solar cell handling and inspection technology at the Intersolar...
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADEP), the leading provider of intelligent automation software for motion and vision-guided robotics systems and services, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and year-end results on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 2:00 pm PDT (5:00 pm EDT)....
Home News IN BRIEF Wall-E, the eponymous hero of the latest creation from Disney Pixar, was in London yesterday for the movie's UK premiere in Leicester Square. He was joined on the blue carpet by Sigourney Weaver, who voices one of the film's characters ian west/pa wire...
MIAMI, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberKnife Centers of Miami and Palm Beach will be joined by a third, CyberKnife Center of Tampa Bay by summer's end. MORSE LLC of Miami, a world renowned image guided robotic radiosurgery practice facilitator, will guide the three centers in maintaining the model of...
Knee replacement doesn't have to be 'total' CONCORD, Mass. -- More than 1,000,000 stiff and aching knees worldwide get replaced every year, many of which are now candidates for a breakthrough, minimally invasive knee surgery option called MAKOplasty([R]). All of the procedure's key components - including a robotic...
