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Kurion Awarded Robotics Contract to Repair Leaks in Damaged Fukushima Reactor
Kurion, Inc., an innovator in nuclear and hazardous waste management, announced it was awarded a contract to develop an advanced robotic arm to repair reactor primary containment leaks within the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through a contract with Japanese industry leader IHI Corporation, Kurion will begin producing the robotic system, the Fukushima Repair Manipulator (FRM), for a targeted deployment of mid-2016 within the Unit 2 Reactor... Full story
Business Update
- Pick a place and learn about robotics
- January fundings are off to a great start!
- January fundings are off to a great start!
- Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley Talent
- Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley Talent
- Orbcomm purchases Skywave
- Book Launch: Implementation of Robot Systems, 1st Edition
- Robot on board
- Robotics News to partner with Re-work future of robotics workgroup
- Mazor Robotics Receives China CFDA Approval for Its Renaissance Systems
Robotics
- Flexible electric gripper designed for universal robots from robotiq
- RE.WORK The Future of Robotics Forum 2014
- Robotics: The next big investment opportunity?
- Clearpath nominated for Stevie International Business Awards
- Carnegie Mellon's Human-Scale CHIMP Robot Has Four Limbs, But Moves on Treads Like a Tank
- A push for robotics experimentation helps Coppelia strategy move to open source
- Robotics Lab opened in York University
- Robotics Industry Association launches Rho bota phi the robotics career website
Legislation
- Legislating for Driverless Cars
- David Willets qualifies robotics and autonomous systems as one of eight future UK technologies
- A £1 million funding competition aimed at helping to develop robotics and autonomous systems technology in the UK has been launched by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.
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Virtual Robotics Challenge, the first stage in the DARPA Robotics Challenge have just been released
Twenty-six teams from eight countries qualified to compete in the VRC, which ran from June 17-21, 2013. DARPA had allocated resources for the six teams that did best, but in an interesting twist, good sportsmanship and generosity will allow members of the top nine teams, listed below, to move forward: ... Full story
