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Learn about Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
A discussion of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Video: © World Science Festival (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
See how mechatronics help engineers create high-tech products such as industrial robots
Learn how the discipline of mechatronics combines knowledge and skills from mechanical,...
Video: © The University of Newcastle, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment with thanks to Jeremy Ley and Nick Parker from Light Creative (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How does a robotic pipeline for bacterial genetics help scientists at University College Cork?
A “robotic pipeline” used in bacterial genetics at University College Cork, Cork,...
Video: University College Cork, Ireland (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn about an origami robot that forms itself, execute a variety of tasks, and then disappears by degradation
A multilayered sheet, made from printable material, folds up when heated, transforming...
Video: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A cockroach-inspired robot
Development of a cockroach-inspired robot that can be used to quickly enter into...
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See how researchers developed a fully maneuverable fish robot modeled on the electric fish
Learn how researchers developed a highly maneuverable ribbon-finned underwater robot,...
Video: Courtesy of Northwestern University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
See how robotic fingers controlled by sensor glove, aids the wearer to perform tasks with one hand, which usually requires two hands
A look at experimental robotic fingers, controlled from a glove, that enhance the...
Video: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Robots assisting the elderly in Japan
The development of robot suits that aid the elderly and disabled.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Norman Chan/Dreamstime.com; © Sarah Holmlund/Dreamstime.com
How flexible electronic skin is created
Scientists working to develop flexible electronic skin to bring the sense of touch...
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Giving robots and prosthetics a new sense: Touch
Robots are becoming more humanlike with the development of hairy skin.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn about the workings of surgical robots
Learn about surgical robots.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Observe the testing of micro-robots to sort out the better equipped and the more intelligent
Overview of artificial intelligence.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Farshadarvin; © Donfiore/Dreamstime.com
Images
A humanoid robot
ASIMO, a two-legged humanoid robot developed by the Honda Motor Co.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge in Metropolis
(From left) Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge in Metropolis,...
From a private collection
Entertainment robots
The AIBO entertainment robot, model ERS-111. The doglike robot had two microphones...
Courtesy of Sony Electronics Inc.
three stages of mobile robot development for the Mars Rover Research Project
Three stages of mobile robot development for the Mars Rover Research Project: (A)...
© MIT, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Pebbles the robot
Pebbles, a tractorlike robot utilizing a vision-based control system developed during...
© MIT, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Attila the robot
Attila, along with its twin, Hannibal, was built at MIT (1989–91) as part of a research...
© MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Genghis the robot
Genghis the robot was built at MIT in the mid-1980s to demonstrate the efficacy...
© MIT, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Herbert the robot
Designed by Rodney Brooks and affectionately named for artificial intelligence pioneer...
© MIT, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Shakey
Shakey, a mobile robot, was developed (1968–72) at the Stanford Research Institute,...
Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif.
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