August, 2011:

Here is a revolutionary robotic jet ski from QinetiQ called Blackfish. Blackfish is the first line in defense where robotic jets ski is able to monitor both under and upper water areas during the patrol. Robotic jets ski Blackfish is perfect equipment to protect ships in harbor areas from terrorists. Blackfish is able to travel around with speed up to 40mph. This robot designed in 10 feet long and can be controlled remotely up to one kilometer. Moreover the robotics jets ski Blackfish can be operated in pre-programmed routes. This kind of robot is used to prevent terrorist attack on ship in harbor areas. Blackfish could be robot that able to prevent same attack that stroke U.S.S. Cole in Yemen that killed 17 people.

QinetiQ is a giant company that well known for its military equipments. One of the famous robotics from QinetiQ is TALON, a powerful robot that can be equipped with combat weapons. One of QinetiQ newest products is Zephyr. Zephyr is a high altitude long endurance unmanned air vehicle. Zephyr is used to support payloads for surveillance or communication. This unmanned aerial vehicle Zephyr could provide high quality data for wide range areas and of course cut cost for communication. This new UAV has a powerful performance as it proved itself by breaking the world’s longest duration unmanned flight record. Zephyr flied for 14 days and 21 minutes non-stop and reached over 70,000 feet altitude.

Meet the Thai robot named Yumbo. Yumbo is the latest robot waiters from Thailand. The latest robot waiters Yumbo developed by CT Asia Robotics. The latest robot waiters Yumbo is still in the development process, this robot projected to be cheaper than any preceding waiter robots. This robot carries tray through restaurant just like a real waiter. Supported with infrared cameras the latest robot waiters Yumbo is able to avoid collision. Yumbo also programmed to be attractive robot where it can express many expressions. It can meet and greet customers with the support of voice recognition technology.

Singaporean researchers developed new innovative high-tech surgical system. This new system is an endoscopic surgical robot that will be really helpful for patients with tumors. This new endoscopic surgical robot cuts down the surgical time under an hour from hours of surgery. This new endoscopic surgical robot was demonstrated at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in India to operate three patients of gastric cancer. The new endoscopic surgical robot system name is MASTER or Master And Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot. MASTER has a different techniques in undergo the surgery.

Olivia is a name of a social robot from Singapore. This robot was recently unveiled by the Singaporean researches from A*STAR Social Robotics Laboratory. The Singaporean social robot Olivia is able to talk and move its sleek six-degrees-of-freedom arms. Olivia was designed as a platform robot for human-robot interaction. A*STAR Social Robotics Laboratory or ASORO, a part of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, as the creator plan to use this robot at the RoboCup in 2010. The Singaporean social robot Olivia planned to be used as a receptionist robot.

Indian Ocean became a place for scientists to do research on climates including the underwater robotic research. This ocean area is important place for Australia and South Asia, where this area provides important climate information for them. It was all because floods and droughts can impact on the cost of food which is being exported globally. Ocean temperatures and salinity are two important things for the scientists to measure the climate data that affects countries in those continents. But this area was getting dangerous for the climate scientists to do research because they have to share the area with pirates.

Sam Todo, a Togolese student, has something different with the science project from other students. This African Togolese Republic student built a Togolese old TV part humanoid robot. Almost all the components used on this Togolese old TV part humanoid robot are completely from old TV parts. His Togolese old TV part humanoid robot called as SAM10, perhaps this humanoid robot is the tenth version of his science project robots. This old TV part humanoid robot is working, it could do some task like say hallo to people and avoid obstacle while walking.

Imagine that there is a robot that can “entertain, teach and be a companion” to human being or let us say that a social android that can be our ‘best friend, teacher, entertainment’. The Spanish firm AISoy Robotics had developed the first social android, which is introduced as the AISoy 1 Social Android and it had already sold in August 2010. Diego Garcia, one of the “fathers” of the robot and head of AISoy’s product engineering and development division, said, “it almost seems like science fiction, but it’s a reality”.

The Taiwan’s most prestigious University had introduced the tour guide robot at National Taiwan University in August, 2009. Hsiao Mei, the tour guide robot, had been built by a group of engineering students and their professor in the purpose for guiding tours. The tour guide robot had the capability in creating the map of the area by itself, which was combined by the mechanics inside its head to create facial expressions ranging from happy and surprised to sad and angry.

The new dimensions to the island’s reputation as a high-tech power become the main goal of an ambitious group of scientists at the Centre for Intelligent Robots Research in Taiwan lab. Jo Po-chia, a doctoral student who is in charge of the robot’s design, states “It’s the first time we try to construct a quadrupedal robot. We need to consider the balance problem.” The panda robot will be the world’s first panda robot that has been introduced in the end of 2009. Jerry Lin as the centre’s director also adds that this world’s first panda robot will be very cute and more attracted to humans.

Prosthetic use to be related to human being, but in UK recently known that bionic feet could be used on animal. A cat named Oscar given new feet after its back feet severed by harvester. The one who responsible in operating Oscar was Noel Fitzpatrick. Oscar was given two prosthetic limbs which developed by a team from University College London. This revolutionary bionic feet is a intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthetics, a special prosthetic. It is a bioengineered prosthetic leg that able to mimic the bone. This prosthetic is a combination of engineering mechanics with biology which makes it revolutionary. The University team used metal and flange to grow outside skin into tight bone.

There are many kinds of robot competition in worldwide; one of the biggest is the Robocup. For some country they have their annual national scientific and engineering competition like Estonia does. They named their robotic competition as Robotex with their slogan “Where brains and metal meet”. This competition started in 2001 where took place in Tallinn University of Technology on November 9th. In this competition students of the university and University of Tartu should build robot that able to move along the marked track and also pass the obstacles. This Estonia robotic competition’s winner will get a massive prize of 6000 Euro with free registration.