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Featured Articles » Robotic Insects Are Now Created Much Faster by New Methods Discovered at Harvard » Robotics, 3-D Technology Bring Dinosaur Replicas to Life » Robot Basketball: The Latest Craze in Extracurricular Activities   Sponsored By: Panasonic WEBINAR: Are You Ready for a Change from Premise Telecom Equipment? Monday, March 12, 2012 2:00pm EST 11:00am PST Register Today! Many businesses are challenged to install their own services and lack the technical and maintenance know how. Hosted solutions provides a solution to this problem. Hosted solutions require little setup, and it is all done for you, usually in just a few days. Despite the inexpensive real estate made available by the real estate market collapse post-recession its still expensive. Many offices have gone to a smaller office footprint which means you need technology to shrink along with your floor space. One way to do this is to trade in the PBX in the closet for a hosted solution. Panasonic will discuss these topics and highlight the various industries that Cloud services and hosted SIP solutions can impact.   Top Stories » iRobot Secures Its 100th United States Patent for Robotic 'Retrotraverse' Technology » Microchip Supports Arizona Science and Technology Festival » Adept Technology, Willow Garage and Southwest Research Institute Collaborate for ROS Industrial Project » Energid Technologies Funded by the National Science Foundation   From The Expert Corner February 29, 2012 GIA's Report Shows High Demand for Global Industrial Robotics By Daniel Brecht Contributing Writer Global Industry Analysts, Inc., (GIA) is one of the largest market research companies in the United States. It offers facts, figures, forecasts and marketing trends. Not only does GIA provide business intelligence on many companies, it provides clients Global Strategic Business and Market Trend Reports. Recently, they announced “A Global Strategic Business Report on the Industrial Robotics” market. According to the report by GIA on February 27, 2012, the global industrial robotics market is projected to reach 204 thousand units by the year 2017, compared to last year’s report on January 10, 2011 that spoke of 143 Thousand Units by 2015. GIA’s report indicates the increase in units of Industrial Robotics, which follows these end-use segments: Assembly, Material Application, Material Handling (Palletizing/Packaging, & Parts Transfer), Measuring/Inspecting/Testing, and Welding, is the result of the strong growth in Asia-Pacific, especially South Korea and China. The report also refers to the handling production of electronic products, and the outcome of incremental technology developments in chip design that has helped transform the robotics industry... Read More   From The Blogs Bluefin Robotics to Jointly Develop UUV February 22, 2012 By: Greg Galitzine Two companies are joining forces to develop a novel, next-generation submersible that will answer the US Navy’s call to come up with a solution featuring increased mission time, operational range and payload carrying capacity. Battelle subsidiary Bluefin Robotics, which designs and manufactures Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) and related technology, and The Columbia Group, a specialist with expertise in military undersea vehicles, diving systems, and shipboard launch and recovery systems have teamed up to deliver a dual-mode (manned and autonomous) vehicle currently named Proteus.... Read More    Featured Videos » Robo Bear    Featured Resources » Decisions That Drive Success » Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics   TMCnet's Blogs » Unmanned Drones to Share US Airspace by 2015   Featured Channels » Industrial Robotics » Robotics   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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