http://www.masshightech.com/latestnews.html Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology : breaking news from Mass High Tech Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:07:50 -0500 en-US http://www.masshightech.com/ http://www.masshightech.com/images/flag.gif http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/11/16/daily60-Corindus-raises-47M-in-equity-funds.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Vascular robotic systems developer Corindus Inc. has pulled in $4.68 million of a planned $10 million equity financing. The Natick-based company designs, develops and markets remote control systems for cardiology operations. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/11/02/weekly22-MHT-All-Star-Rodney-Brooks-Roots-of-an-industry.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Rodney Brooks, CTO of Heartland Robotics Inc. and co-founder of iRobot Corp., won the Mass High Tech All-Star Distinguished Achievement award for 2009. Read about how Brooks' first robot he built at the age of 16 eventually turned into a career centered around that technology. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/11/02/daily22-MassTLC-merges-MassNetComms-into-the-fold.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Mass Technology Leadership Council Inc. reports it is merging with the Massachusetts Network Communications Council, making a super-group of tech boosterism that now combines consumer and enterprise software, hardware, robotics, Internet commerce, network devices, network management and security software, and mobile software and hardware. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/10/26/daily42-Loofbourrow-to-head-up-iRobot-senior-health-unit.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology IRobot Corp. today announced a new business unit focused on utilizing robotics for senior citizen healthcare, and named Authoria Inc. founder and former CEO Tod Loofbourrow as president of the new group. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/10/19/daily55-Artaic-founder-and-CEO-Acworth-doubles-in-paranormal-investigating.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Boston entrepreneur Ted Acworth has never really held a job you could call “normal.” His current company, Artaic LLC, does robot-made mosaic installations and counts two Boston hospitals among its growing list of customers. With his work at Artaic growing more intense, Acworth has had to drop a sideline as a UFO investigator, though he's picked up work as a ghost hunter. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/10/19/daily42-WPI-robotics-team-wins-NASA-lunar-excavation-contest.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology A team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Paul’s Robotics, led by WPI undergraduate robotics engineering major Paul Ventimiglia — has won the $500,000 grand prize from a NASA lunar excavation robotics contest, the 2009 Regolith (moondust) Excavation Challenge, in California. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/09/28/daily13-Ahura-Scientific-QinetiQ-deal-brings-spectrometry-to-robots.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Ahura Scientific Inc. reports it has partnered with QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group to add Ahura’s spectrometry technology to QinetiQ’s Talon robots. Under terms of the agreement, the companies will add a compact, laboratory-grade Raman spectrometer to Talon military robots. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/09/21/weekly14-Change-efficiency-and-messaging-drove-iRobots-downturn-survival.html Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Bedford-based iRobot Corp. was founded in Somerville in 1990, just in time for an economic downturn that would last the next couple of years. Today, iRobot is a profitable public company known for making robots that vacuum floors and help soldiers disarm bombs. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/09/07/daily35-Robonica-aims-to-shift-former-board-game-hub-to-robotic-games.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology It’s been nearly two decades since the North Shore was churning out Monopoly and other Parker Brothers board games, but a new Beverly company, Robonica, hopes to revive that legacy by mixing traditional game play with emerging robotics technology. http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/09/07/daily16-Heartland-Robotics-12M-funding-fuels-hiring-spree-.html Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Heartland Robotics Inc., the manufacturing-focused robotics company founded by iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks, has taken in $12 million from three investors, and is aggressively hiring engineers, the Cambridge-based startup announced.