This article, which is well worth reading in and of itself, also got me spending in inordinate amount of time looking into the world of Medieval robots.
The majority of the world's robots are bolted to a spot on a factory floor, sentenced to a repetitive choreography of welding, stamping and cutting.
And theme parks around the world are spending billions of dollars hoping that the thrill of robots can entice tourists.
The Rapyuta database is part of the European Robo Earth project that began in 2011 with the hope of standardising the way robots perceive the human world.
According to the International Federation of Robotics there are now 1.1 million working robots in the world.
The Japanese have made surprisingly little use of robots to clear up after the recent earthquake, given their world leadership in this area.
First established in 1997 in Nagoya, Japan, RoboCup pits robots from around the world in contests of skill including their capacity to provide disaster management and assisted living services.
Drones could tend to gardens and farms while people control telepresence robots on the other side of the world via heads-up displays like Google Glass.
Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online.
Nanto City, a centrally located Japanese city with an elderly population that comprises 26% of its total residents, is one of the first municipalities in the world to experiment with using robots to help care for the elderly.
As we think about how robots will begin helping us in all different aspects of our lives over the next decade, we believe that design innovation in robotics will be at least as important as tech innovation in finally making robots available to a majority of people in the world.
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