South Korea is promoting an ethics charter for robots. The new ethical charter will set standards for users and manufacturers of robots and will be released later in 2007. The charter is being drafted by a five member team of ...

ASIMO, a 4 ft. (120 cm), 115 lb. (52 kg) Honda humanoid robot, is the world’s most advanced and recognizable. Despite what many think, ASIMO does not pay homage to Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov but is actually an acronym ...

Researchers Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, and Hod Lipson from the Computational Synthesis Lab at Cornell University have developed a self-modeling robot that can generate successful motor patterns for locomotion by creating an “internal model” of itself and then adapt itself ...

The s-bot is a small, mobile robot developed at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland between 2001 and 2004 as part of a Future and Emerging Technologies project coordinated by Professor Marco Dorigo. The ...

Toyota i-foot – is an over 7 ft., two-legged, walking, mountable robot developed for three-dimensional mobility, with the ability to navigate staircases. The passenger climbs on, straps in, and drives it with a joystick. The i-foot is meant to carry ...

Fujitsu Enon Robot Worker –. According to Fujitsu “Enon” is an acronym of the phrase” exciting nova on network”, which conveys the robot’s ability to autonomously support customers’ tasks while being linked to a network. Fujitsu has been selling the ...