“By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup”. This is the official goal that ...

An English company named “Shadow Robot” created a robotic imitation of a human hand, the closest one ever to the real thing. The “Shadow Hand” provides 24 different movements, which allow almost identical functionality capabilities as the real flesh and ...

For the first time, a miniature man-made robotic fly has been demonstrated. Inspired by nature’s real flies, Prof. Wood and his team from the Harvard University succeeded in manufacturing a 60 milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan capable of sustained ...

Recently, more and more attention is being drawn to self automated vehicles. From newspaper articles in to exhibitions – there is a constant discussion of cars that park themselves, armed with radar sensors and cameras that recognize whenever the driver ...

In 2006, researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University created a unique spider-bot capable of walking on water. The robot could ultimately be equipped with biochemical sensors for monitoring water quality or deployed with cameras for spying or exploration missions of ...

This 18 feet wide 8 feet tall robotic spider is the brain child of Industrial Designer Marcos Nolan from the University of Washington. The bulletproof robot is designed for high risk rescue operations in dangerous areas and war zones. Using ...

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 ...