| Chris Lutz Named KMT Robotic Solutions, Inc. Vice President of Sales
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 9 -- KMT Robotic Solutions President Kevin McManus announced today the appointment of Chris Lutz to the position of Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Lutz will execute and oversee KMT Robotic Solutions' North American sales objectives and initiatives. Lutz, who's been involved in industrial automation marketing and sales since 1980, has held various positions including national Sales Manager at FANUC Robotics, General Manager at Staubli and Director of Marketing and Sales at Adept Technology and Applied Robotics. "The formation of the new Robotic Solutions business area within The KMT Group created the need to bring in a proven sales leader to strengthen our team," said McManus. "Chris' experience in robotic automation and his focus on doing what it takes to provide superior customer support make him a great addition to the KMT team." "Being a member of KMT Robotic Solutions is an ideal opportunity to be an integral part of a dynamic, successful, global team," Lutz said.
Robotic sub to search for missing passengers
Greek rescuers were expected to deploy a robot submarine yesterday to search for the bodies of two French tourists believed to have drowned when a cruise ship sank off a resort island last week. The ship's captain has blamed Thursday's accident on sea currents that swept the Sea Diamond onto a charted reef, tearing a hole in the ship's hull. Nearly 1,600 people were rescued before the vessel sank. Some of the oil that has leaked from the ship has washed ashore, Santorini Mayor Angelos Roussos said on Monday, though he added that "the clean-up company has the situation under control." Roussos said that the island's local government would not take legal action against the operator of the ship, Louis Cruise Lines, part of a Cyprus-based tourism group. But he said he was concerned about how to guard against such accidents.
British team grows human heart valve
A British research team led by the world's leading heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. If animal trials scheduled for later this year prove successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from heart disease within three years. Sir Magdi Yacoub, a professor of cardiac surgery at Imperial College London, has worked on ways to tackle the shortage of donated hearts for transplant for more than a decade. His team at the heart science centre at Harefield hospital have grown tissue that works in the same way as the valves in human hearts, a significant step towards the goal of growing whole replacement hearts from stem cells. .
Rant: All robots are crap
Working the journalistic sphere of gadgets people expect that I'll be nuts about robots. Well I'm not; robots are Brad Pitt, have always been Brad Pitt and will always be, Brad Pitt. Not robotics per se - that is the kind in the manufacturing industry which have proved their worth time and time again (not to mention put a lot of people out of work, but that's a whole different story) - but the kind of crap created in the image of man or animal that awkwardly crash about a bit before running out of batteries and coming to a incredibly unimpressive stop. Usually I'd just leave the argument there but, apparently, that's not enough to persuade all people of the inherent rightness of my views. As such I'll break it down into three concise points explaining why robots are about as exciting as seminar on statistical analysis.
Injection Molding Cell Using the KUKA KR3 Robot Wins Robot of Year ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.-(Business Wire)-March 26, 2007 - KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, today announced an injection molding cell using its KUKA KR3 robot won the Gold award in its division and was named the "2007 Robot of the Year" at the National Robotics Challenge held March 9-10, 2007 in Marion, OH. The cell was designed, built, programmed and entered into the competition by the robotics team at Ohio Northern University's (ONU). The KUKA robot is one of seven robots that KUKA Robotics recently announced it had provided to ONU's Robotics Technology Center of Excellence. .
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