Robots are now being developed that can "understand" human emotions. They can interact with their users, and express happiness and sadness, depending on the situation.
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Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches...
Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot....
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A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other.
