By Roger Bridgman

Take an in depth examine the interesting global of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the complicated intelligence of robots with emotions. younger readers can be surprised to benefit all that robots can do: practice smooth surgical operations, fresh urban sewers, paintings as museum travel publications, or maybe conflict one another in strive against. learn the way people have created those mechanical minds and our bodies.

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Tokay gecko The body is jointed in the middle, which allows Robug II to move from vertical to horizontal surfaces, and vice versa. The movement of each limb is controlled by a microprocessor. Pneumatic cylinders power the limbs. Vacuum suction grippers are located on the underside of each foot. WINDOW WALKER NUCLEAR EXPLORER Wall-climbing robots have obvious uses for jobs such as cleaning large buildings, where it is difficult to provide access for humans. The Ninja series of four-legged climbers was developed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan from 1990 onwards.

The camera relays images to the person operating the robot. ART WORK Most visitors to Paris, France, know the glass pyramid outside the Louvre art gallery. But few will have realized how it is kept clean. Following earlier experiments, seen here, the pyramid is now cleaned by a robot built specially for the job by inventor Henry Seemann. The robot climbs using three large sucker feet and delivers pressurized cleaning solution. Robin can seal radioactive waste in containers, making it safer for humans to handle and dispose of.

Kajitani also thought that Mubot would be a useful tool for scientists studying musical instruments. Robot has realistic fingertips. The flute needs no modification. WF3-RIX plays with a human flautist WF3-RIX playing a flute CUTE FLUTE Atsuo Takanishi of Waseda University believes that music, with its combination of mechanical and emotional demands, can help us find out what it takes to build a better humanoid robot. His robot flautist WF3-RIX can play a real flute in an expressive way. But the expression does not really come from the robot.

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