According to a tasting robot created by NEC, we humans taste like prosciutto and bacon.  Originally built for wine tasting, this robot has an infrared spectrometer at the end of its left arm which fires off a beam of light when objects are placed in front of it. The light is then analyzed to determine [...]

Since we already have robots that can create common, every day things in a factory, it isn’t too hard to believe that robots could construct buildings. An engineering professor and inventor Behrokh Khoshnevis thinks he has created the robot that can build a home in about a day. Sounds too futuristic right?
Well Khoshnevis, who is [...]

The latest in robot guards is the Guardrobo D1 (real original name) which was initially developed because of the concern for the growing elderly population in Japan. The cartoon like robot (really, it looks like Rosie from the Jetsons but then again so does every robot) was developed by Sohgo Security Services, a Japanese security [...]

The robot is the one on the left. I think…..
Source: National Geographic

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Science Fiction had its lines-blurred by reality long ago and this bit of news just goes to prove it all the more. NASA is working on ‘Robotic Skin’ which could allow a robot to sense its environment much like humans do.
Robots move well on their own, especially when nothing is in the way,” Lumelsky explained. [...]