All-girls' team shows up all the rest; Flamingos' next goal: world robotics prize.
Byline: Paula J. Owen LEOMINSTER - If you ask the seven girls on the Leominster Pink Flamingos First Lego League robotics team what's the best part of winning the state championship last month and going on to the world championship in Atlanta in April, they would all...

Health Robotics Announces Results of the European Union-Sponsored SafeChemo Project.
BOZEN, Italy, January 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that the European Union (EU) Commission and eTen have made available the first results of the SafeChemo Project it sponsored at three of its pharmacies. The EU's SafeChemo objectives were to scientifically and independently establish if CytoCare(TM) (the world's...

Luminary Micro Inspires Next Generation of Engineers as Crown Supplier of the FIRST Robotics Competition.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris(R) family of ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), announced today that it is joining forces with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people's interest...

FMC Technologies Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Diluted Earnings per Share From Continuing Operations of $0.74, Up 16 Percent.
Highlights: - Record subsea systems revenue of $788 million - Energy Production Systems operating profit up 39 percent - Acquisition of a 45 percent interest in Schilling Robotics, LLC completed - Company provides 2009 guidance for diluted earnings per share of...

`Build season' puts learning into high gear.
Byline: Clive McFarlane COLUMN: CLIVE MCFARLANE In the popular FIRST Robotics Competition, which draws thousands of young people each year to showcase their engineering and computer science ingenuity, there is an initial phase that encapsulates the true spirit of learning. They call it...

CUREXO Technology Corporation Names Brent D. Mittelstadt as President & CEO.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- CUREXO Technology Corporation, pioneer in medical robotics and world leader in image-directed robotic products for orthopaedic applications, which is focused on marketing its ROBODOC(R) Surgical System, announced the addition of Brent D. Mittelstadt to its senior management team as President and Chief Executive...

Nypro teams up with FIRST on wheels.
CLINTON - Nypro announced it is joining forces with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people's interest and participation in science and technology, as a Bronze Supplier of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). ...

The MaxCyte(R) STX(TM) Scalable Transfection System to be Presented at the Rapid Fire Innovation Session at LabAutomation2009.
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- MaxCyte, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high performance cell loading systems, announces the presentation of the MaxCyte(R) STX(TM) Scalable Transfection System at LabAutomation2009 in the Rapid Fire Innovation Session, a joint program of the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) and the Laboratory Robotics...

Automation Alley Proud to Welcome 1,000th Member.
iRobot Corporation joins as newest member TROY, Mich., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Automation Alley, a technology business association driving growth in Southeast Michigan's technology economy, announced at its Annual Meeting today that iRobot Corporation has become the organization's 1000th member. "Starting with just 44 members...

Building a bionic woman.
Most people would marvel at the 1970s television show The Bionic Woman" and just hope to emulate the technologically advanced heroine. Not a young Dr. Ayanna MacCalla Howard. "I said, 'I can build The Bionic Woman,'" she says with a laugh. But it formed the...