Tweenbot
The tweenbot, a cardboard-bodied, cheerful little bugger, is equipped with a flag stating its intended destination. Since it can only move forward, it depends on the kindness of strangers to guide it and remove obstacles. (Video) (Pics)

 
da Vinci Si Surgical System
Now even the clumsiest doctor can perform incredibly precise microsurgery with this latest da Vinci Si Surgical system, the only one in the world that operates in 3D HDTV. Using four robotic arms and one channel of HD video for each eye, the system reduces and filters a surgeon’s movements to [...]

Child Robot- CB2 
The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it’s slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. (Pics)

BERTI Robot 
Developed by Elumotion and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, the BERTI robot, recently on display at London’s Science Museum, was specifically created to mimic human gestures. The “gesture bot” was designed to use human gestures to compliment verbal communication with humans.

 
Wow I hope your not scared of needles
When doctors need to perform a coronary bypass, it typically involves cracking open the patient’s chest and stopping all functions of the heart. From Waseda University in Japan comes a robot that could end the need for that second step, at least.

Talking to yourself reaches a whole new level
Scientists say they can now build near-perfect replications of a human being, and that they finally have the technology to bring the inanimate to life.
Scientists are liars. Here are seven robots that reached for “life-like,” and came up with a big handful of your worst nightmares.

Sea Life Of Fondo Marino de Palma de Mallorca
Scientists are developing a robotic octopus that will be able to search the seabed with the same extraordinary dexterity as the real eight-legged cephalopod. With no solid skeleton, the robot would be the world’s first entirely soft robot, say researchers.

 
A robot named Cosmo has become six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald’s unlikely ally in his uphill everyday battle with developmental difficulties.
At a strip mall clinic in suburban Maryland, Kevin is at the unlikely intersection of new efforts to treat symptoms of autism, cerebral palsy and other developmental disorders with robotics and computer work.

Can you say terminator
Researchers at Cornell University in New York have created robotic cubes that can create copies of themselves in under three minutes which, surprisingly, the scientists purport are simple machines. Self-replicating robots are simple? That’s because that’s all the cubes do – at the moment. They could easily be outfitted with tools for [...]

 
Just in time for Fashion Week In Tokyo, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has unveiled the HRP-4C fashion model robot. As you can see in this video, the robot has a series of motors situated throughout its 5-foot tall, 95-pound body that give it a rather life-like appearance.

Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA’s Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.

Its alive Its alive
Albert Einstein has not only been born again, he is even more empathetic and happier than he was when he lived. Although only his head and shoulders live, this rubberized version of the genius smiles or frowns and has eyes that follow underneath the trademark Einstein shock of white hair and above [...]

Just a hint of creepiness don’t you think
Just outside of Tokyo, there’s a company called Little Island, run by Hiroaki Koike, that specializes in fashioning robotic dolls after the likenesses of real people.

 Next there will be plug and play organs
“Research is now underway in the US to seek FDA approval for an artificial liver.”

EVERYONE’S 2009 CHRISTMAS WISH!!!
Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot’s long and shiny arms to a visitor. Read more and MORE PICS below!!!

Robo Cute
He’s red and he cleans. What more could you want for Valentine’s Day?

TechnoJelly
Fester AG is a global company that specializes in automation technology. In December, the company won two very prestigious Good Design Awards in robotics and bionics from the Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture, Art Designand Urban Studies. Fester’s award winners were the AquaJelly and the AirJelly, both [...]

Robots are sweet
DVICE’s Steampunk Cylon contest is in full swing – thanks to everybody who’scontributed so far! Even though the contest is open only to residents of the U.S., anyone can send us a Steampunk Cylon design; you can’t win the contest, but you can still get featured on DVICE.

As if bugs were creepy enough here is extra creepy
Why mess around with flying microbots when you can get perfectly good bugs to do the work? That’s what researchers are doing with these cyborg beetles, strapping on six electrodes that might someday turn the lowly insects into eavesdropping, remote-controlled superbugs.

 
Board Game CLUE 
A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE© could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives.

 
Didn’t I see this one on battle bots?
Here’s a dream come true for those of us lazybones who find ourselves unexpectedly snowbound more often than we care to admit. Dubbed “the world’s smartest snow shovel,” i-Shovel is so intelligently automatic, it’s able to sense when there’s snow accumulation, and then busies itself with clearing off [...]

Good thing it only shoots webs not bullets
From the “Aren’t you a little short to be a Terminator?” school of design comes the squat Tmsuk T-34, which, while it won’t cut you down at the ankles (nor is it a Soviet tank), packs a powerful net-launching mechanism that wraps opponents in a web like Spider-Man’s.

 
There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers-a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).

 
QA by Anybots 
The folks over at Anybots have a telepresence robot that’s impressive inside and out. Called QA, the ‘bot has an attractively slim Apple-white exterior with big ‘n’ soft blue eyes, and its functionality doesn’t suffer for its good looks. It can cruise along on its wheels at up to six miles per hour [...]

I’ll take a vodka gimlet to go…

BaR2D2 is a radio-controlled, mobile bar that features a motorized beer elevator, motorized ice/mixer drawer, six-bottle shot dispenser, and sound activated neon lighting. The robot is driveable so you can take the party on the road! It was created in my garage using standard hand/power tools and readily available [...]