So, this is actually based on that. This robot is called MARS Multi Appendage Robotic System. So, it's a hexapod robot.

We have robotic limbs.

It was actually robotic surgery.

So, I began designing a new technology of telepresence, using robotic systems to replicate myself, so I wouldn't have to cycle my vehicle system.

There is a number of robotic systems.

Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments.

Catherine Mohr Surgery's past, present and robotic future

It's a 12 degrees of freedom robotic arm.

And it's a crime that our education system is so serious because education is serious that we're creating mindless, robotic workers to put bolts in pre drilled holes.

So, the drill was mounted on this robotic arm.

Freitas has a design for a robotic white blood cell.

I'm an organic food eating, carbon footprint minimizing, robotic surgery geek.

So we're all motivated to get motor commands to drive robotic arms.

Now this was about building a robotic car that can drive itself.

Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next gen robotic arm.

Canada also planned to develop the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator for more delicate robotic operations.

We create robotic workers that we treat like assets, to lever and just throw away.

And the result of our meeting was a robotic rocket powered airplane we call ARES.

Well, we're going to be sending robotic missions to Mars long in advance of human missions.

And hopefully if we understand how we control movement, we can apply that to robotic technology.

There are a lot of really neat, very good robotic hands out there in the market.

But at the end of the day, how do we tell these robotic arms what to do?

So we can bring the experiments of the 21st century by applying robotic technologies to this problem.

And this is called NOTES, and this is coming basically scarless surgery, as mediated by robotic surgery.

What I'm going to show you next is the first fully autonomous robotic exploration underground that's ever been done.

Well our patients have to use very code y systems of using just their arm muscles to operate robotic limbs.

This robot is actually a family of snake robots that we call HyDRAS, Hyper Degrees of freedom Robotic Articulated Serpentine.

There was a brief clip Narrator A mission to explore under the ice of Europa would be the ultimate robotic challenge.

I have no idea of what comes next, so I just used robotic and natural cockroaches as the future, as a little warning.

And so I just put robotic and natural cockroaches out there, but you can fill in whatever you want. This is not a forecast.

Now you've seen before that with electrodes you can control robotic arms, that brain imaging and scanners can show you the insides of brains.

And two weeks after this drawing was done, we actually had our first project contract, at AeroVironment, on robotic cockroaches, which was very frightening to me.

And in this case, we're imagining intermediary robotic devices that can actually do some of that front end work for us, to protect any potential life that we find.

I'm not going to go through all of these projects now, but we're involved in about half a dozen robotic development projects, in collaboration with a number of different groups.

I'm looking at nerves here. So these are nerves you see, down on the bottom, and the microscope probe that's being held by the robotic hand, up at the top.

And so we did that, and working with David, we made a little company called Applied Proteomics eventually, which makes this robotic assembly line, which, in a very consistent way, measures the protein.

And we're entering an era of really, truly scarless surgery called NOTES, where the robotic endoscope can come out the stomach and pull out that gallbladder all in a scarless way and robotically.

What you're watching is a design of a robotic red blood cell, and it does bring up the issue that our biology is actually very sub optimal, even though it's remarkable in its intricacy.

Now, the most interesting implementation of that for us is when you can begin to have robotic walls, so your space can convert from exercise to a workplace, if you run a virtual company.

Every object in the opera comes alive and is a gigantic music instrument, like this chandelier. It takes up the whole stage. It looks like a chandelier, but it's actually a robotic music instrument.

And my job was to write many of the algorithms and code for NASA to do virtual surgery in preparation for the astronauts going into deep spaceflight, so they could be kept in robotic pods.

I was about to start a robotic operation, but stepping out of the elevator into the bright and glaring lights of the operating room, I realized that my left visual field was fast collapsing into darkness.

We began to introduce that in our explorations, and we continued to make phenomenal discoveries with our new robotic technologies. Again, looking for something else, moving from one part of the mid ocean ridge to another.

So by way of showing you this, you can kind of get an understanding of what it is to, hopefully, try to create robotic life forms, or technology that has an emotional connection with the user.

An analysis of this respirocyte, designed by Rob Freitas, indicates if you replace 10 percent of your red blood cells with these robotic versions, you could do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath.