EMILY - Quick Help For Drowning People

If you get into the strong sea flow and become out of power and the only thing you can do is to keep your head above the water, then you can get help from an incredible rescuer - rescue robot EMILY. It is electric autonomous swimming vehicle with a length of 1.2 meters. Holding to this robot, people will be successfully towed to a safe zone, where the affected people will be taken to rescuers and medical personnel.

The First Olympics Of Robots

In Harbin on the north-east of China the first in the history Olympics of humanlike robots has started.
Android-athletes created by young talents from China, South Korea, USA and Japan are competing in athletics, soccer, volleyball, boxing, and not Olympic kinds of programs - play the drum and dancing.

There are 24 kinds of contests in the program of competitions taking place at the play-field of Harbin Technological University,  in that the different students’ develops of robots: from the controlled  by remote control to fully autonomous humanoid machines.

Turn Any Machine Or Device Into The Robot

In order to transform, for example, vacuum cleaner, car wash floors and other similar machines, into a robot all you need is just to connect it to the car computer brain. This computer brain is a specialized module CRB100 that was developed by Spanish researchers from Spain's Universitat Jaume I (UJI) and designed to transform into a robot or a self-moving machine.

Geminoid F - The Robot-Girl With Human Facial Expressions

Hiroshi Ishiguro, Japanese Professor and Robotics, became famous after presentation of his new device to the public. Hecreated his "twin", the robot Geminoid HI-1. Distantly-controlled it had ability to convey basic emotions of its operator and transmit his voice via built-in speakers. The main goal of this robot was to research various aspects of psychological interaction between robots and humans.