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  • Invisible faults, digital solutions

    This is the mock-up of a noozle, a particularly sensitive component of a nuclear plant. This is an ultrasound robot, specially designed to monitor it… 09/12/2011

  • Robots on show

    An exhibition featuring 20 of Europe’s most innovative robots has just opened at London’s Science Museum. Stars of the show include the iCub, a child-like… 01/12/2011

  • Levy directs robot action flick Real Steel

    Australian actor Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton in Real Steel, an out of work boxer – out of work because his sport has been taken over by 900 kilo robots. 13/10/2011

  • Meet ASIMO the humanoid waiter

    ASIMO, a humanoid robot created by Honda, serves tea to a visitor during the Johannesburg International Motor Show at Nasrec in Johannesburg. REUTERS/Siphiwe… 07/10/2011

  • Robots fighting cancer

    Operations to remove cancerous tumours are difficult because it is vital to remove everything; just one cell left behind can form a new cancer. In the … 04/08/2011

  • SmartBird teachnology soars

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the latest in Avian robotics – SmartBird. Launched at the world’s biggest industrial fair at the Hannover Messe in… 06/04/2011

  • Stand by for the ‘robolution’

    World players in the field of robotics gathered in the French city of Lyon for the first international InnoRobo event, where the experts all agreed that… 29/03/2011

  • Mika and robotic friends aim to please

    Do you fancy a nice hot drink in the morning, but can’t face making it sometimes? Well, Singaporean robot Mika could be just your cup of tea. 16/03/2011

  • Meet Kompai, your robot friend

    Kompai is a robot companion to humans who need one.   Born in a workshop near Biarritz, France, Kompai is the fruit of a European Union project to explore how… 28/02/2011

  • Hi-tech robot to restore limb movement

    Scientists at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have dubbed it HAL for Hybrid Assistive Limb. This exoskeleton, or external skeleton, not only protects its… 10/02/2011

  • The robot firefighter

    On wasteland on the outskirts of Zagreb a robotic firefighter is put through its paces. The Firerob, developed by Croatian firm DOK-ING, is a unique concept… 11/01/2011

  • Robots with a human touch

    Already familiar characters in countless sci-fi movies, humanoid robots are well on the way towards stepping off the silver-screen and into daily life.   But… 17/11/2010

  • Robots: man’s new best friend?

    Robots are learning to become more human. But what are the goals and boundaries of such progress? Meet Erica and Borka. Erica – 29 years old – lives not… 24/03/2010

  • Life on Mars

    Space agency NASA is launching a nuclear-powered probe on a nine-month journey to Mars in a bid to learn if there is or ever was life on the planet. The… 26/11/2011

  • Taiwan Robot Fair features host of new inventions

    A carriage pulled by a robotic horse and a ball-catching teddy bear were just some of the exhibits at Taiwan’s International Robot Fair that attracted… 25/10/2010

  • The robot child

    The iCub is a wide-eyed robot that wants to learn like a baby. European researchers are working with child psychologists and neuroscientists to build a robot… 16/09/2010

  • Meet the robots

    On hi-tech this week – Acroban, a humanoid robot who plays with children, technology to control robotic hands and arms and Digoro the ‘Partner Robot’ 03/08/2010

  • Bionic legs give new hope

    In Aukland, New Zealand, wheelchair users have new hope of improved mobility after a company unveiled a new type of robotic leg. According to the developers… 21/07/2010

  • Grapes, robots and saints

    Grape producers in the Shimane region of Japan have a new weapon in their fight to keep crops irrigated – the mobile phone. All it takes is click of a phone… 23/06/2010

  • Army experts trial robot tanks

    With nearly 300 British soldiers dead in Afghanistan alone, the drive to keep servicemen and women out of harm’s way has never been more important. Vehicles… 20/05/2010

  • The ultimate fisheye lens

    We have seen human-like robots and robotic dogs, now meet robofish. Researchers at the Osaka School of Engineering in Japan are devloping a robot that can… 11/01/2010

  • Transformers: Robots in disguise

    Robots of all shapes and uses were on show at Japan’s International Robot Exhibition. The focus was on industrial robots but electronic pets, helper robots… 30/11/2009

  • Navigation robot leads the way

    This robot is able to find its way around a building, without crashing into obstacles or ending up down dead ends. Developed by Portuguese researcher Manuela… 03/11/2009

  • Spiderbot is coming!

    At the Ben Gurion University in Israel, researchers have obviously been reading comics because their new robot is clearly inspired by spiderman. It’s called… 28/10/2009

  • The robot that can

    This is iCub. He is a 95 centimetre-tall robot built by researchers at the Italian Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies in Rome. ICub has… 30/09/2009

  • Latest surgical robots at work

    In Guy’s hospital in London, surgeons are using a new state of the art machine to perform surgery such as the removal of the prostate gland of a cancer… 27/07/2009


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