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Next Generation Image-Guided Surgical Robotic Systems

Adept Technology, Inc., a global, leading provider of intelligent robotics systems, and Prosurgics, a leading image-guided surgical robotics company, today announced an agreement to collaborate on the design and development of the next generation of Prosurgics’ surgical robotic systems for image-guided and navigated neurological and soft tissue surgery.

3 Mar 2008

Low-Cost and Versatile Way to Make Photonic Crystals

Materials known as photonic crystals could form the building blocks of future optical computers and micro-scale communications devices. Scientists have developed a low-cost and versatile way to make photonic crystals, and combined them in ways that bring optical 'transistors' a step closer.

3 Mar 2008

Latest Solid State Lighting Device Unveiled at World's Biggest Nanotechnology Event

The world's biggest nanotechnology event saw Nanoco unveil a solid state lighting device based on its cadmium free quantum dots CFQDTM and also showcase latest developments in the area of CIGS nano particles.

2 Mar 2008

Measuring Field Strength and Area Densities

Scientists have identified for the first time two distinctly different types of electromagnetic configurations in inertial confinement fusion implosions that have substantial effects on implosion dynamics and diagnosis.

2 Mar 2008

Construction of the Worlds Largest and Solar Photovoltaic Power Station

Construction of the worlds largest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power station in northern Victoria will commence in 2009 following the signing of a $290 million Development Agreement between Melbourne-based business, Solar Systems, and leading integrated energy company, TRUenergy.

1 Mar 2008

Next Step in Laser Skin Resurfacing

Skin damage. If you are over 40, your skin may be telling some tales about you -- about your time as a smoker (lip lines), those long, lazy sun-worshipping summers (dry, rough skin, wrinkles, freckles and age spots), or perhaps you're seeing a little more of Mom and Pop in the mirror each day than you'd care to.

1 Mar 2008

Providing Highest Quality Solar Energy Systems

Nelson Ferreira, CEO of Ferreira Construction and John Drexinger, President of NJSS, have launched Vanguard Energy Partners.

1 Mar 2008

Spectral Imaging System Could Shorten Operating Times for Infants

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are developing a spectral imaging system that could result in shorter operating times for infants undergoing surgery for Hirschsprung’s disease, according to a mouse study reported in the Journal of Biophotonics.

1 Mar 2008

An Invisible Warship

Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy.

1 Mar 2008

Using Light Instead of Wires to Send Information

IBM Researchers today unveiled a prototype technology that could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient way to all kinds of machines -- from supercomputers to cell phones -- that could revolutionize the way people access, use and share information across many different applications.

29 Feb 2008

New Sensitizers Helping Solar Cells to be More Efficient

In collaboration with Satoshi Uchida at the University of Tokyo, Michael Gratzel and his research group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have now developed new sensitizers that should help an inexpensive type of solar cell to be more efficient.

29 Feb 2008

FOX Dental Lasers Receives FDA Clearances

Technology4Medicine, a provider of lasers and other advanced high technology products for the dental, medical, veterinary and physiotherapy markets, and A.R.C. Laser GmbH, a world leader in producing high quality medical lasers, announced the FDA has granted clearances for the FOX (TM) diode dental lasers.

29 Feb 2008