July, 2011:

The Nigeria-Turkish International College Students had won a Global Computer Award in International Computer Project Competition held at Romania in 2006. Mr. Ahmet Yasar Demirkol, as the principal of Nigeria-Turkish International College, told that Nigeria won three Global Computer Awards out of total 313 projects at the competition. It was Abuja, the Nigeria-Turkish International College student, who had earned a silver medal for the country. He developed a robot, which can speak, walk, and share knowledge with people at the competition to won this Global Computer Award.

SEPTA Energy and a subsidiary of Seven Energy Group in Nigeria hired Swiss Inspection Specialists (SGS) Industrial Services for the inspection of their pipeline project that had been invested into two gas fields in Nigeria for $420 million. In this inspection a pipeline inspecting robot was used. This pipeline inspecting robot was called as the X-ray crawler, its task was to scan thousands of welds on the 60km-long gas pipeline between Ikot Abasi and the Eket Power Station in Nigeria that was operated by an inspection team of ten experts used a robotic X-ray crawler.

Nigeria had spent $260 million contract to strengthen their defense system for its coastal oil operation reason. They had a deal with an Israel company to build a military robot in 2006, especially Robot Navy for Nigeria defense system. However, it had not been clear whether the Nigeria defense system robot navy would be adapted for pipeline security or border security. The Nigerian Navy step in building the robot navy was followed by India that was also getting into the act, with a Robot Army in the works. The Nigerian Navy (NN) spokesman, Commodore David Nabaida, states that the Nigerian Navy had announced that the two new warships acquired on November 2009.

The competition in robot technology has grown rapidly; it has been proved since 2008 to present. The number of participants of robot instructors’ contests increased ten times now than the starting point of the competition in 2008 – “Baltic Robot Sumo” a Lithuanian robotic contest that has been established by the robot instructors from Klaip?da, Riga and Tallinn. As the common hobby among them in constructing sumo robots, they decided to establish a competition during annual contests. Lithuanian robotic contest Baltic Robot Sumo teams were known as some of the best androbots of Klaip?da in Europe.

It is not about a genre of music but is about the technology. The world’s biggest IT fair that was hold on March 2011 at the CeBIT, in Hanover. The French firm Gostai, as the creator of Telepresence Robot Jazz states that “it is a shiny white humanoid robot that its makers believe could transform business meetings and reduce the need for long-distance travel”. Telepresence Robot Jazz can run for five straight hours at around 4 km per hour, the most important thing is it does not need to be recharged and return to its charging station when it runs out of juice.

It is called The Collie – Cybernetic Organism that has been known as a fictional dog character from 1950s American television that was never smart enough to turn itself into a robot warrior. Fictional Robot Collie is just a series of photographs of Dmitry Izotov’s graphic design project that he has been altered to include a steam punk machine similar in James Cameron’s Avatar. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is the one who has posted the patent sketches. It has drawn comparisons all over the Web to Lassie.

The robotic knowledge has been the important subject of the education in the world. In the future, this subject could be one of the co-curriculum activities in every school in the world. As one of the proof, Malaysia has taken part in the development of robotic knowledge. The Malaysian National Robotics Competition that had already been held in the past two years and it always hold in every year as the effort of this country to develop a positive perception of science and technology and for the students’ future itself.

Morocco had ordered the latest Robot technology from Robot Visual System GmbH in the form of an order for stationary speed monitoring systems or robot visual systems for the first time. The Kingdom of Morocco wanted to face up to the worrying developments in terms of road traffic deaths because this kingdom currently has a road network at about 62, 000 km in length. In maintaining the Kingdom’s economic success, the Ministry of Transport, therefore used the latest Robot Visual Systems GmbH’s technology worth around 7 million Euros. This first robot visual systems of robot digital radar technology has the MultaRadar S580 for speed monitoring

Nowadays, there will be no worries anymore for those who get stroke. Japan that is pioneering robot technology tries to help the stroke patients to walk as other human beings do. The robotic legs that wrap around belt and legs, like a mechanical pair trousers that is attached to a patient to help them stand up and take steps. This mechanical pair trousers is called the Hybrid Assitive Limb that has been developed by a company called Cyberdyne in the end of 2010. The Hybrid Assitive Limb is equipped by sensor pads on the skin pick up the body’s electrical signals, in which the robotic legs will help the patient to stand up and take steps.

Imagine if there is our twin brother/ sister suddenly appears in front of us who has the same face, hair color and all the physical characteristics with us. This fact has happened at the end of March 2010 in Japan where three robot replicas met their truly characters. However, it is just the three robot replicas that have been ordered by Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University, an unnamed Japanese woman, and Henrik Sharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark. These robot replicas are called Geminoid DK, which cost at about $200k.