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The Honda Motor Company developed ASIMO which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility. ASIMO is the first robot that walks independently and walks up and down the stairs. It is 4 feet 3 inches. It can also understand preprogrammed gestures and spoken commands, and recognize faces.
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A group of M.I.T. brainiacs created Roomba in 2002. It is a robot that vacuums your house for you running on rechargeable batteries. Its sensors keep it from bumping into walls and furniture or falling off staircases. When it finishes a room it beeps and turns itself off.
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What sets Domo apart is its ability to sense and respond to its surroundings. It can also recognize people, pick up cups, and shake people's hands. Its fine-tuned human-like eyes can see what it's looking at.
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This New Rover being sent to Mars is 9ft long, runs on a chunk of plutonium, and carries 176lbs of scientific instruments including a neutron gun; for firing at the ground to detect permafrost.
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The world's first commercially available bionic hand took many hands and years to develop. It has the power hold for larger things like coffee mugs. Research on the device began in the 1960s in United Kingdom's national health system. Now hundreds of people around the world are using Touch Bionic's bionic hand.
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Next is the first of a new class of robots being developed at MIT's Media Lab and referred to as MDS, which stands for mobile, dexterous, social. Next can, or eventually will be able to, move around on wheels (hence mobile), and it can pick up objects (dexterous). But its most striking feature is it's humanlike, albeit creepy, face, which can express a startling range of emotions (social).
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This brightly coloured android is to help South Korean Students fluent in English. Some of the human teachers are even worried about these robots taking their jobs.
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The Lifeguard Robot EMILY stands for Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard. EMILY is a robotic buey that can swim through riptides at a speed of 24 m.p.h. The creator (Tony Mulligan) says that makes her about 15 times as fast as an average lifeguard.
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It's the second-fastest supercomputer in the world and it's located in the Oak Ridge National Library. With 10 petabytes of storage, it holds the second-largest amount in the world.
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Nao is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company headquartered in Paris, which was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2015 and rebranded as SoftBank Robotics. The robot's development began with the launch of Project Nao in 2004.