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Featured Articles » Mazor Robotics Secures First Tranche of Its Financing Deal with Investors » Langone's Robotic Surgery Center Winds Up its Second Year of Educating Surgeons » Underwater Docking Stations Developed for Robots to Recharge   Sponsored By: TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine - Target. Engage. Deliver. Companies must know who to target, how to engage, and how to deliver customer needs efficiently and effectively. CUSTOMER will help the enterprise and contact center keep tabs on the latest strategies in customer experience management and social media. CUSTOMER premieres in September 2012. (TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine is an evolution of Customer Interaction Solutions.) SUBSCRIBE NOW   Top Stories » Make Way for Robot Soldier » Bee Brains Used in Research to Develop Flying Robots » Thomas County Central Establishes Robotic Program   From The Expert Corner October 05, 2012 Robotic-Autonomous Machine Technology Now Being Developed at University of Connecticut for Sea & Air Operations By Ed Silverstein TMCnet Contributor The attention of much of the state of Connecticut this weekend will be focused on whether UConn defeats its rival Rutgers in football – but there’s a winning proposal now being developed by robotics-engineering researchers at the University of Connecticut for fully autonomous machines. The applications could lead to unmanned vehicles which may save lives, infrastructure and the environment during a major crisis. The UConn team has already been given a $1.2 million grant by the National Science Foundation's National Robotics Initiative (NRI) to develop underwater robotic networks – also called autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) networks – for submerged discovery and rescue operations. Once in place, they could be used in varied harsh environments. This kind of technology would also help to avoid putting human lives at risk. An AUV network also leads to lower costs and higher levels of efficiency. The cooperative underwater robotic network is preferable to more traditional acoustic, radio communication networks, the researchers said... Read More    Featured Videos Interview with Kindsight    Featured Resources » Forbo Customer Case Study » 2012 Bit9 Cyber Security Research Report » Power Distribution in Data Centers   TMCnet's Blogs » ITEXPO West 2012 Videos   Featured Channels » Military Robotics » Consumer Robotics » Industrial Robotics   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      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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