1.Twendy-one menunjukkan kemampuan untuk memegang benda rumit/halus yang memakai sedotan di antara jari-nya di Departemen Teknik Mesin laboratorium di Waseda University di Tokyo, Jepang. Robot canggih yang telah dikembangkan oleh tim dari perguruan tinggi, dipimpin oleh Dr Shigeki Sugano, dalam mendukung harapan masyarakat di masa mendatang
2.NASA's Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot (LEMUR) sedang dirancang sebagai inspeksi / robot untuk pemeliharaan peralatan dalam ruang. LEMUR IIa, dapat membantu membangun struktur besar dalam ruang. LEMUR IIa yang digambarkan di sini ditampilkan pada skala kecil.
3Humanoid robots Wakamaru, diproduksi oleh Jepang, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, bernama Momoko (R) dan Takeo (L), ikut ambil bagian dalam sebuah drama untuk pertama di dunia robot manusia dan teater eksperimental, ditulis dan diarahkan oleh Oriza Hirata dramawan Jepang, di Jepang Universitas Osaka di Osaka, Barat Jepang.
4Chancellor Jerman Angela Merkel berpose dengan robot yang bernama "Bruno" di Darmstadt University of Technology dalam rangka National IT Summit ke 3 di Darmstadt 20 November 2008.
5Toyota Motor Corporation robots
6Seorang pria dengan berjabat tangan dengan robot 'Berti' di Museum Sains di London. Robot ini dirancang untuk meniru sikap manusia, dan di tampilkan di London's Science Museum.
7Thailand dan prajurit AS melihat tampilan robot yang disebut "Big Dog" saat memberikan sambutan pada acara pembukaan latihan militer Cobra Gold di sebuah hotel di provinsi Chiang Mai, Thailand utara.
8Pengunjung sedang melihat robot sistem humanoid "Rollin Justin" yang mempersiapkan secangkir teh, pada 2 Maret, 2009 di Pameran teknologi tinggi terbesar dunia di Hanover, Jerman pusat.
9Royal Marine berpose untuk difoto dengan kendaraan Robot, Testudo, pada peluncuran di Teknologi Perencanaan Pertahanan di London 26 Februari 2009.
10Seorang pelajar Tokyo Institute of Technology menampilkan prototipe robot keamanan "bino3" pada acara demonstrasi di pameran keamanan di Tokyo pada tanggal 3 Maret, 2009. Bino3 yang memiliki empat "mata", yang merupakan sepasang wide angle kamera dan sepasang kamera tele-foto lensa yang dapat mengikuti suatu subjek atau penyelundup dengan halus.
11Robot yang dirancang MSI bernama "Kaya" menunjukkan pengarahan wisata di sebuah taman trail Grand Hills apartemen showroom milik perusahaan Linkou, Taipei County, Taiwan pada 18 Oktober 2008
12Biomimetic robot bawah air, bernama "RoboLobster", dirancang oleh Profesor Yusuf Ayers, Aug 17, 2007, di Nahant, Massachusetts. RoboLobster ini dimaksudkan untuk mengenali perubahan di laut dan untuk mencari dan memusnahkan ranjau bawah.

ROBOT

A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or remotely controlled. Robots range from humanoids such as ASIMO and TOPIO to Nano robots, Swarm robots, Industrial robots, mobile and servicing robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The branch of technology that deals with robots is robotics.

When societies first began developing, nearly all production and effort was the result of human labour, as well as with the aid of semi- and fully domesticated animals. As mechanical means of performing functions were discovered, and mechanics and complex mechanisms were developed, the need for human labour was reduced. Machinery was initially used for repetitive functions, such as lifting water and grinding grain. With technological advances more complex machines were slowly developed, such as those invented by Hero of Alexandria (in Egypt) in the 1st century AD, and the first half of the second millennium AD, such as the Automata of Al-Jazari in the 12th century AD (in medieval Iraq). They were not widely adopted as human labour, particularly slave labour, was still inexpensive compared to the capital-intensive machines. Men such as Leonardo Da Vinci in 1495 through to Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739, as well as rediscovering the Greek engineering methods, have made plans for and built automata and robots leading to books of designs such as the Japanese Karakuri zui (Illustrated Machinery) in 1796. As mechanical techniques developed through the Industrial age we find more practical applications such as Nikola Tesla in 1898, who designed a radio-controlled boat, and John Hammond Jr. and Benjamin Miessner who in 1912 created the Electric Dog as a precursor to their self directing torpedo of 1915.^[1]. We also find a more android development as designers tried to mimic more human-like features including designs such as those of biologist Makoto Nishimura in 1929 and his creation Gakutensoku, which cried and changed its facial expressions, and the more crude Elektro from Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1938.

Electronics then became the driving force of development instead of mechanics, with the advent of the first electronic autonomous robots created by William Grey Walter in Bristol, England, in 1948. The first digital and programmable robot was invented by George Devol in 1954 and was ultimately called the Unimate. Devol sold the first Unimate to General Motors in 1960 where it was used to lift pieces of hot metal from die casting machines in a plant in Trenton, New Jersey. Since then we have seen robots finally reach a more true assimilation of all technologies to produce robots such as ASIMO which can walk and move like a human. Robots have replaced slaves^{[citation needed]} in the assistance of performing those repetitive and dangerous tasks which humans prefer not to do, or are unable to do due to size limitations, or even those such as in outer space or at the bottom of the sea where humans could not survive the extreme environments.

Man has developed an awareness of the problems associated with autonomous robots and how they may act in society. Fear of robot behaviour, such as Shelley's Frankenstein and the EATR, drive current practice in establishing what autonomy a robot should and should not be capable of. Thinking has developed through discussion of robot control and artificial intelligence (AI) and how its application should benefit society, such as those based around Asimov's three laws. Practicality still drives development forwards and robots are used in an increasingly wide variety of tasks such as vacuuming floors, mowing lawns, cleaning drains, investigating other planets, building cars, in entertainment and in warfare.