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ICRA’s unit acquires Kolkata-based Axiom Technologies Posted June 21st, 2008 by Pankaj Lakhotia ICRA Technology Sector Kolkata Software developer ICRA has informed that its wholly-owned subsidiary ICRA Techno Analytics (ICTEAS) has acquired Axiom Technologies Private Limited (Axiom), for an undisclosed amount.

NOTE: Robot comic poll on the sidebar to the right of this post. The recently concluded International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008) included for the first time a very cool contest. Conference participants were asked to submit their entries for the first ever (and hopefully not last) robot comic competition with a first place prize of $500 and an IEEE-RAS membership for 1 year.

Two Japanese-built robots have captured first place at the ICRA ’08 Human-Robot Interaction Challenge. Keepon, designed for the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan, and HOAP-3, created by Fujitsu, tied for top spot when the results were revealed last week.

Stanford's Stickybot, a wall-climbing robot that uses gecko-inspired directional adhesives on its feet. Photo: Stanford University Spectrum correspondent Prachi Patel-Predd reports that engineers at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008), in Pasadena, Calif.,

A little known W3C standard is the Platform of Internet Content Selection (PICS). You can tell from the poor layout that it’s a very old standard — in fact all of its parts are from 1996 and 1997. OMG, that’s ancient! That’s even older than HTML 4, CSS, or the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines! PICS is a system for self-labeling.

Credit rating agency, ICRA Ltd has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Central Bank of India. Under the MoU, ICRA will assign ratings to the Bank's loans and its other exposures under the standardized approach of RBI's New Capital Adequacy Framework for Basel-II.

Indian rating agency ICRA assigned highest credit quality rating (A1+) to Tata Motors Finance Ltd’s Rs 2,000 crore short term debt. Earlier in this January ICRA had placed the company’s long-term and short-term ratings on negative watch.

The organizers of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) have decided to try and spice things up a little bit introducing the first ever robot comics competition to take place during the 2008 conference this May.