As you know, we are very interested in humanoid robot, human walking, so we decided to build a small humanoid robot.

Now a lot of robotics is very impressive, but manipulation robotics is really just in the dark ages.

But let me show you cutting edge robotics.

Robotics systems are just incredible these days, absolutely incredible.

And this is like robotics without wires or motors.

We were the very first team in the United States that qualified in the humanoid RoboCup competition.

So we're really entering the era of wearable robotics actually.

And now this is the early era of wearable robotics.

Welcome to RoMeLa, the Robotics Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech.

I'm at Carnegie Mellon we've got a great Robotics Institute there.

And many, many other robotics projects I want to talk about.

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

I took here a model from robotics it's called the Subsumption Architecture.

And we will be bringing robotics of all sorts into the ocean.

We worked with, by the way, Honeybee Robotics. This is the brain.

We truly believe this is going to be the very first running humanoid robot in the United States. So, stay tuned.

But what we do know is that it isn't 10 years or 10 billion dollars or a large humanoid robot away.

There is no generalization at all from one task to another in robotics.

Can we really scale this up? Can we really embed robotics into every part?

And then I started Hanson Robotics, which has been developing these things for mass manufacturing.

But the robotics part is the hardest part. That's the old brain. That's really hard.

At our lab RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, we have these fantastic brainstorming sessions.

If you want to go beyond a tinkering, if you want to go beyond a hobby of robotics and really tackle the grand challenges of robotics through rigorous research we need more than that. This is where school comes in.

It also conducts space robotics experiments by using the robot arm installed on the chaser satellite.

So this is the end of a Ph.D. project from one of the best robotics institutes.

So I wish that I could tell you what the future of personal robotics looks like.

Honeybee Robotics designed the Mars Driller, and it was really very much fun to work with them.

So the first thing we're going to do are the things that don't require a lot of robotics.

These are just the awards that we won in 2007 fall from robotics competitions and those kinds of things.

It also brought a new crew member , a German made manipulator robot named Robotics Component Verification on ISS (Rokviss).

So, this is for the best humanoid, and we would like to bring this for the very first time, to the United States next year, so wish us luck.

The last couple pieces I'm going to show are basically in the new realm of robotics for me, new for me.

And the goal of RoboCup, the actual goal is, by the year 2050 we want to have full size, autonomous humanoid robots play soccer against the human World Cup champions and win.

Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleton of a humanoid child and how Africa holds the clues to our humanity.

There's a whole programming language and robotics tool, so if you want to teach someone how to program, kid, adult, whatever it is.

The purpose of ETS VII is to acquire the basic technologies of rendezvous docking and space robotics that are essential to future space activities.

Recently, the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (FRR) released a report looking at the development of sex robots over the next five to 10 years.

So tonight I'd like to tell you about the intersection that I'm most excited about at this very moment, which is entertainment and robotics.

And we've seen, over the last two or three years, lawn mowing robots, Husqvarna on the bottom, Friendly Robotics on top there, an Israeli company.

(a) To focus on the commercial and technological strengths of Canada to meet its ongoing needs in space science, automation and robotics, Earth observation and communications

The reason we're so focused on building robots that everyone can train is that we think the most compelling use cases in personal robotics are personal.

The future of personal robotics is happening today, and it's going to depend on small, agile robots like Romo and the creativity of people like yourselves.

In the face of difficult budget decisions, the Canadian government has continued to recognize its responsibility for developing the Mobile Servicing System, which will provide external Space Station robotics.

According to Noel Sharkey, emeritus professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield and co founder of the FRR, we need to start taking their rise seriously.

And we look at these exponential technologies from medicine, biotech, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, space, and address how can we cross train and leverage these to impact major unmet goals.