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

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

(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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

MSS is a sophisticated robotics system that will play a predominant role in the assembly, maintenance and operation of the Space Station, in which Canada is a partner with Japan, Russian Federation, the United States and participating member States of ESA.

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.

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).

I'm working on this with the Field and Space Robotics Laboratory and my friend Steve Dubowsky at MIT, and we have come up with the idea of having little, jumping bean like robots that are propelled by artificial muscle, which is one of the Dubowsky Lab's specialties are the EPAMs, or artificial muscles.

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

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

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.

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.

They're flying through their space, ocean space.

Before hyperbolic geometry, mathematicians knew about two kinds of space Euclidean space, and spherical space.

Public space. This is a good public space.

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.

(i) Space experiments and utilization of the space environment

So you went from public space to private space.