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Robot
A robot is a machine that is programmed to perform certain tasks autoamtically.
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Exit: Robots play the James Bond theme song
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have equipped small flying robots with four rotors and programmed them to play the James Bond theme song. And we’ll show you how it works.
Robotic exoskeleton in action
Claire Lomas was paralyzed from the chest down in a horse riding accident, but earlier this year used the ReWalk robotic exoskeleton to complete the London marathon. John Frijters of Argo Medical Technologies tells us how ReWalk works.
Thinking robots
Computer scientists want to teach robots how to learn independently.
Europe applauds Mars landing
DW's Holly Cooper watched the landing at the operations center of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, where scientists applauded the Mars landing.
NASA celebrates Mars landing
After an eight month journey NASA's nuclear-powered Mars rover Curiosity has landed safely. The rover is to embark on an ambitious mission to uncover whether the planet could once have supported life.
Robotic helpers
Harnessing brain waves to help disabled people could radically change lives.
Thought-controlled robotic arms
An experiment presented by science magazine, Nature, involving a paralyzed American woman, who had directed a robotic arm to pick up a cup of coffee with the power of her thoughts has given some a sense of hope. But it could take years for the technology that harnesses brain waves to make it to market.
Cutting costs
Could robots help Germany's fledgling electric car business by lowering production prices?
What robots can do for electric cars
Price is one of the main reasons why many car-buyers have not made the leap to electric cars yet, as well as anxiety about range and where to recharge. Scientists at Munich's robotics expo, Automatica, believe that robots might hold the key to improving the outlook for these vehicles.
Air acrobats
Unmanned mini-helicopters are increasingly being deployed in numerous applications.
German winners in Robo-Cup
Europe's largest robotics contest has been won in the household section by a student team from Bonn University. Their homely humanoid impressed jurors by watering flowers, offering snacks and rearranging furniture.
Man on the Moon: Sustainable research in outer space
Scientists, politicians and businesspeople are all fascinated by the moon. They want to build manned stations on the moon and extract its raw materials. Perhaps one day soon, this vision will become a reality.
Tomorrow Today's viewer question
How can we protect ourselves from space debris?
Robot help
Honda's revamped humanoid robot Asimo can function within the contaminated Fukushima plant.
Intelligent robots
Frank Kirchner develops machines that will make their way to the moon - or Mars.
Robotic surgeons
An Irish hospital swears by its medical robots in performing routine gynecological surgery.
RoboCup
Researchers from the University of Bonn have taken a top prize for soccer, and for housework.
Robotic artillery
Unmanned attack planes are on the increase. They'll soon engage each other by themselves.
Autonomous cars
Experts indicate that German and American corporate money is largely behind driverless research.
Eye on the ball - soccer-playing robots
At a university in Leipzig, soccer-playing robots are learning to see better. Computer science students are working on ways to allow the robots to recognize the mouth of the goal, the pitch and fellow players using color and shape recognition.
Robotic mini-shuttle
The new mini-shuttle, about the size of a car, would follow an already approved craft, called IXV.
Life-like appearance helps robots integrate into human life
Ongoing research could turn robots from devices good for repetitive tasks into intelligent, life-like machines.
Robots set to change the face of the future
For many Europeans, robots are more the stuff of science fiction than science. Researchers in Germany are working to change those out-of-date perceptions.
Robots ready to lend humans a hand
Robots could lend humans a helping hand in many aspects of everyday life.
Industrial flair
Fly like a bird. The Hanover industrial fair showcases engineering firms' latest innovations.
Nuclear resistant robots
Japan is considering Germany's offer to send robots to help clean up the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Pumps and Robots - German Technology for Fukushima
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima is an international problem, and helping to tackle it is a global challenge. German equipment is being deployed there: cement pumps made by Putzmeister, for example. And KHG, a company run by Germany's nuclear power plant operators that specialises in technical assistance in emergencies, is offering to send robots.
Stellar Careers - The Women Who Work with Space Technology
Hanna von Hoerner is one of Germany's leading astrophysicists. She founded the von Hoerner & Sulger company, which specialises in space technology engineering and contracts with space agencies such as NASA. Female colleagues are few and far between.
CeBIT's robots
Engineers are showcasing the latest in AI and robotics for in both practical and fun applications.
Robots under brainwave control at German tech fair
Half a dozen different robots are on display at the CeBIT technology fair, including a system that could one day help disabled people, who are denied the use of their limbs, to steer mechanical devices.
Robot Internet
From robot soccer to the robot equivalent of Wikipedia, we discuss the roots of RoboEarth.
'Emotional' robots
Pi4 Robotics hopes to use this new robot to bring back manufacturing jobs to Germany.
Getting a grip
In a DW interview, a German innovator explains the bionic grappler.
Robotic car
University of Parma scientists pioneer robotic cars that can navigate all on their own.
Competitive kicker
Competitive table soccer has the fans and passion to give the World Cup a run for its money.
Global Media Forum
Using autonomous robots in conflict situations poses ethical problems, says expert Noel Sharkey.
Wind Workers
Robot ranchers will tend the ranges of sprawling wind farms in the future, say German scientists.
Robots cleaning the house and ironing clothes
The human race is always looking for ways to make life easier and machinery has played a large role, especially with robots. Today, researchers have ambitious ideas about what role they could play in our everyday lives.
Deep Sea Robots
Scientists know more about the surface of the moon than they do about the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean. But, German researchers intend to change all that with a new multi-million euro deep-diving robot.
Video: Robots in Germany
Multimedia: Europe's robot space freighter, Jules Verne
Page Preservation
The Bavarian State Library now employs a robot to digitize a collection of some 37,000 works.
Germany Wins RoboCup
Testing Artificial Intelligence on German Soccer Fields
German researchers play a key role in developing the robots that Robocup organizers hope will take the field against a human soccer team -- and win -- by 2050. Human scouting can start this June in Bremen.
A singing and dancing robot is causing quite a stir at the giant CeBIT fair in Hanover, Germany.
Papero is 30 cm high and his designers at the Japanese electronics group Nec say he could be your new best friend.He recognises you and responds to pats on the head.
Robot Stars Target World Cup 2050 Glory
They can run forever, they never get injured and can be programmed not to complain about being substituted. Soccer robots are the stars of the future and could cause their living, breathing colleagues a few headaches.
Robot Cops for German Stadiums?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so the adage. But 50 kilograms of high-tech machinery could be employed to protect the World Cup next year by hindering potential terrorist attacks.
Germany's Four-Legged Soccer Champs
Sure they can bark, stretch, fetch and roll over, but dog robots can also play a mean game of soccer. Germany's canine automatons do it best, as they proved when they won the RoboCup US Open.
Robots Steal the Show In Munich
Mechanical engineering in Germany has been through hard times lately. But industrial robotics and the automation industry have been in anything but a slump.
Great Pyramid Puzzle Persists
As robots explored an ominous door in a shaft in Egypt's great pyramid, the star of the show was Egyptain researcher Zahi Hawass. But it was a German scientist who had first discovered it.
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