Honda's robot, Asimo, looks like a 4-foot-tall astronaut and can help the disabled at home.
The German team CarOLO's robot veered into a ditch and had to be dug out and towed.
Curiosity's robot arm will drill into the Martian rocks and feed the powdered samples into its onboard chemistry laboratory.
Honda's robot, ASIMO, is humanoid and can walk, talk and respond to commands.
Cybernet's robot isn't likely to dominate the race, which will take place in a reconstructed city on a military base in Victorville, Calif.
And Asimov's robot stories are fun precisely because they highlight the unexpected complications that arise when robots try to follow his apparently sensible rules.
The detachment, housed at Bagram Airfield, the sprawling military installation north of Kabul, has surgery bays and diagnostic tools to give the military's robot companions a second chance.
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That's not to say every bot was on its best behavior: The University of Central Florida's robot confused a driveway for a road, parking itself at an abandoned house.
"I see today's robot toys as predecessors to the future of the robotics industry just as my Apple II and Atari now seem like toys compared to computers today, " Trower says.
So far, Dr Laschi's robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.
The self-taught roboticist has drawn inspiration from Honda's ASIMO robot and Drexel University's HUBO as well as sounding out opinion at his local hackerspace.
Soon after the remote camera mounted on Ballard's undersea robot, Argo, spotted the vessel's massive boiler on the ocean floor, Ballard was calling ABC, NBC and CBS from his ship's radio.
We gave Apple's latest some face time in Distro's first special edition and now it's time for Google's little green robot(s) to get the cover treatment.
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The heavy lifting was then left to space station resident astronaut Susan Helms who used the station's new robot arm to pluck the Quest from the shuttle's cargo bay.
Today's luxury robot, of course, may turn out to be tomorrow's mass-market hit.
What's most striking about Fujitsu's little robot is its simplicity--in a sense, it's merely a camera with a motion sensor atop a base that contains two wheels.
Astronauts released the unmanned SpaceX capsule, named Dragon, from the end of the space station's giant robot arm.
RTC's new robot, named RIBA-II, overcomes these limitations with added power and functionality.
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MIT's Nexi robot has been teaching us about social interaction for years, and has even done a stint with the US Navy.
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Sony's Entertainment Robot America division sees Aibo as an entertainment platform somewhat akin to a video game system, with new features being constantly added.
The result is a compact unit with two Humvee-size primary wheels for one soldier or more and up to a 2, 000-pound pallet of gear, extending with today's technologies into also being a soldier's ready robot - big robot - to take on high risk tasks, scouting maneuvers, resupply or deception tactics.
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Barry's method tells the robot about an object's nature, focusing its attention on the most effective interactions -- sliding a plate until it's more easily picked up, for example.
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"Shimi is designed to change the way that people enjoy and think about their music, " said Professor Gil Weinberg, director of Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology and the robot's creator.
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Yeah, this is kind of like that -- except that it's a freaking robot.
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The competitions will center on NASA's famous space robot Robonaut 2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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To my eye, Zoe was stuck somewhere in the "uncanny valley", that no man's land between robot and realistic human replica that makes us feel uncomfortable.
Ordinary rotors do not work on such a small scale, so Friend's micro-robot project has a special flagellated propeller, mimicking the swimming behaviour of E.coli bacteria.
More broadly, if manufacturers are struggling to keep their handset launch schedules in sync with Google's in-house development, it's no wonder that Android skins seem so unsympathetic to the green robot's natural complexion.
In the months ahead, scientists expect to probe beneath the planet's surface crust for evidence of chemistry favorable to microbial life, using the robot rover's unique high-speed drill.
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