It just so happened that today in the American armed forces are armed with ground-based robots Talon and Packbot, which look like boxes with caterpillars. That’s right – because implementation of specialized military function requires an appropriate design. But the military – the same people and would like to be close to a humanoid robot.

One of the main challenges for the robots, which are engaged in repairing a cable on the seabed – a precise definition of the injury. The muddy bottom at a depth of tens of meters of a lantern fixed on the robot does not always allow the operator on the computer screen to consider what [...]

If you like sushi, then take a look at the robot, which was recently presented at the International Food Exhibition Equipment and Technologies in Tokyo. There, the robot “portrayed” as he can prepare sushi.

We recently wrote about the Japanese robot who is ready to replace the television reporter, take a brief interview and send the text on the web page. Apparently, the idea of a little robot to press the writing fraternity, seriously and permanently settled in the minds of developers.

Useful thing – exoskeleton. I remember reading about it in some sort of fantastic story 60-ies. They used things like the Space Marines fighting the civilization of beetles (later the Americans made a few films and animated series fighters on this topic).

A list of robots able to distinguish between the tastes and smells is growing. Success developers in this area are very different applications. Perfumers, cooks, agronomists are already in service robotic analyzers of various substances. Now among these were added the American criminologists.

You all have long been familiar with the robot BigDog. But now we are acquainted with the new generation of robots of this design, which called Petman. Its design represents a human body to the waist. A robot developed by Boston Dynamics,

Company TMSUK Co. Ltd. creates robots, some of whom are robot Enryu T-52 and Enryu T-53, designed for rescue work during earthquakes and other natural disasters. Especially where there is a danger to human rescue.

Enterprising Americans have figured out how to adapt the robots to solve one of the main problems of their times – to combat excess weight! Naturally, there will only a proper diet. Modest in their requests thoroughly American doctors will tell how it (diet) sit. But do not jump off it will help the robot [...]

To control the mobile robot has several ways. The most common – remote control by remote. Future action carefully programmed the robot with the possibility of rapid adjustment. Speed, meeting with obstacles,

In mid-2009 the Japanese company ZMP has pledged robotic platforms RoboCar to create vehicles. The proposal is interested. And now the first such car passes the test phase. It was called RoboCar Z.

Honda announced the development of the first man-machine controlled by thought, applied to a humanoid robot. This device technology has been developed jointly with the Japanese company Shimadzu based in Tokyo and Research Institute ATR.