But the NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are the closest things we have to the space robots of science fiction.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And NASA is also being called on to develop new technologies to solve problems involved in long-term space flight for humans and robots.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The robots had to pick up large balls and throw them into the trailers of opposing robots.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The students and their robots competed at the FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Like the toys,Transformers are robots that can change into vehicles such as cars and earth-moving equipment.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

More than ten thousand students and more than five hundred robots took part in the competition.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

We send these robots off as our little planetary emissaries to go and do the science.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

They had to design, build and program robots to explore the Earth's climate.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

"I've always loved working with the robots. And when I first started it was a challenge working with the robots, understanding how they worked and figuring them out.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Worldwide,more than six million robots work in factories and perform military service.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

He says the problems involved, among other things,paperweights, robots,castles and lakes.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

"On station one,we have robot arms. And what happens is the robots have different joints like a human arm -- one at the shoulder,one at the elbow, wrist and then a claw.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

That cannot and will not happen anymore." As the president spoke, robots at the bottom of the Gulf tried to move a tube into the pipe that has pumped millions of liters of oil into the water.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14