In February, Washington's Kennedy Center celebrated Japanese culture, arts and technology during its "Japan! Culture and Hyper Culture" festival.

The “ROBAUCO: mobile, autonomous and collaborative robots” project was recently initiated, being led by Tekniker-IK4 and also involving the participation of another Basque technology centre, Fatronik, the Valencian Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI) and CARTIF, the technology centre in Castilla-León.

Although there have been great improvements in the field of robotics in the last fifty years, much work remains in order to introduce androids into our daily life. Rafael Muñoz Salinas, a researcher from de Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the Universidad de Granada, is the author of a doctoral thesis which represents a major improvement in the interaction between robots and human beings.

Japan's future dentists may soon be able to better appreciate patients' pain by training on a humanoid robot that can mumble "ouch" when the drill hits a nerve.

Japanese engineering giant Hitachi Ltd has unveiled a new lightweight robot that can converse while easily scooting around people.

Isaac Asimov must be turning in his grave. In blatant contravention of the sci-fi writer’s first law of robotics, Sami Haddadin’s robot regularly hits him in the face.

The latest generation ASIMO made a European debut in Barcelona. The new ASIMO, which Honda hopes will one day be so advanced that it can truly help people, incorporates several significant technological advancements over its predecessors, including a streamlined new design, even more fluid and quick movements and the ability to run at nearly 6 km/h (nearly 4 mph).

NEC Corp's personal robot - PaPeRo, made its maiden appearance in Singapore at the Singapore Science Centre and National University of Singapore on 25 September.

Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable platform for drilling deep into extraterrestrial soils.

Yesterday the APEC business summit heard from one of the most senior executives in one of the world's biggest companies, Microsoft.

Using a novel underwater robot, University of Delaware marine scientists will help reveal the mysteries of the Black Sea's geology and maritime history, including ages-old shipwrecks, during an international expedition that is now underway.

The mutts are metal, the size of toy poodles, with four pointy feet ending in little balls. They need to learn how to make their way on those little feet across a treacherous terrain of broken rocks. University of Southern California roboticist Stefan Schaal has just won renewal of a $1.5 million DARPA contract to train them to do so.