Farm robots are ready to do hard labor " and technical tasks
Kansas City Star
By JEREMY BERNFELD Brent Ware, a member of the robotics team at Kansas State University, shows a planting robot that won a national competition. In the Star Wars movies, moisture farmers on dry planets like Tattoine use droids to help with the ...

Robotic fish to patrol for pollution in harbours
BBC News
The company is part of the Shoal consortium, a European Commission-funded group from academia and business that has developed these underwater robots. "At the moment, in harbours, they take samples about once a month," says Dr Speller.
Pollution-hunting robot fish take to the sea WHTC
Robotic 'fish' start hunting pollution in the sea Firstpost
Autonomous Pollution-Hunting Robot Fish Introduced into Their (Un)natural Habitat Gizmodo

Robotic Refueling Mission Results To Be Presented At NASA Satellite-Servicing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results to date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) during the Second International Workshop, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, hosted by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ...
NASA and CSA to Present Robotic Refueling Mission Results at the Workshop AZoRobotics

Asteroid Robot's Sticky Feet May Help Device Land On Space Rocks (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
A new biologically-inspired robot could one day crawl over the surface of an asteroid or Mars and gather samples for study using lots of tiny, mechanical "toes." Aaron Parness, a robotics researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...
Sticky Feet Help Robots Land on Asteroids Discovery News

SpaceX Private Spaceship to Join Robotic Cargo Ship Fleet
Space.com
So far, a handful of robotic supply spaceships have been servicing the laboratory, including entries from Russia, Europe and Japan. The United States' space shuttle used to do the bulk of the heavy lifting, but now those vehicles are retired.
SpaceX Fuels Private Rocket for Launch to Space Station Mashable
SpaceX 'go' for 2nd launch try of private rocket Tuesday morning Fox News
Canadarm on space station plays key role in first visit by commercial spacecraft CanadianBusiness.com
Discovery News

Using the Brain to Move a Robotic Arm
Voice of America
Recently, she learned how to control a robotic arm using her thoughts. She now can use brain activity to serve herself a drink. The American woman is one of two people who took part in a research project known as BrainGate2. The researchers have spent ...
Paralysis victims use brain signals to control robotic arm Vineland Daily Journal
Technology Video: Controlling a Robot with Your Thoughts CaryCitizen
Paralyzed woman uses her mind to control robot arm Log Cabin Democrat
World Coffee News

QUAN Works to Take Robotics Out of the Lab and Into the Marketplace
MarketWatch (press release)
HOUSTON, May 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Promising new robotics innovations may be poised to improve our lives forever, but many breakthroughs are still years away from commercial availability. Quantum International Corp. (OTN:QUAN) is working to ...
Quantum Explores Opportunities To Cut Development Timeline For Robotics Advances NASDAQ

MGH, Brown help test mind-controlled robotic arms
Mass High Tech
By Patricia Resende Two people with tetraplegia, who are paralyzed, were able to reach for and grasp objects in 3-D space using robotic arms that they controlled with brain activity, researchers at Brown University, the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...
Paralysed woman's thoughts control a DLR robot domain-B

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: I, robot owner
Computerworld
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols We're used to robots -- in their place. Think of a car factory; the image that comes to mind is probably not the assembly line of yore, but instead pivoting robot arms doing mind-numbingly repetitive tasks with great ...

Robotic surgeries - the future of complicated procedures?
India.Com Health
Four finger-tip sized incisions, four robotic arms, including a camera eye snaking inside, the magnified image of the visceral organs being watched on a screen outside as the surgical instrument arm moves deftly to remove the tumour or blockage.
Nguyen Brothers, First in Bay Area to Perform Single-Site Robotic Surgery to ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Robotic surgery advances care Centre Daily Times
Medical Robotic Team at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center Achieves Milestone AZoRobotics