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Robots at work and at play
Progress towards robotics is constantly going on in areas such as space exploration, health care, public safety, entertainment, security and many others. These machines - some fully self-contained, some depending on the person - are expanding our capacity, improve skills and go for us in places where we tread is dangerous. Currently, NASA has at its disposal dozens of operations with the use of robots - the satellites are already in orbit of the Moon and four planets, and two more will soon go to Ceres and Pluto. Collected here are photos of robots and those who work with them.
1. The robotic astronaut Robonaut R2A waving his "colleague» Robonaut R2B, which is sent into space aboard the shuttle «Discovery» on February 24th. (NASA / Joe Bibby) 56,744,348
2. Workers assemble robotic King Kong on the eve of the show «King Kong: Live on Stage» in the workshop of the company «Creature Theatre» in Melbourne. (AP Photo / Boneau / Bryan-Brown, Simon Schluter) 45,457,251
3. Robot US Army for mine detection and clearance of the work on the corridor Banadar, Garmsher District, Helmand Province, April 29. (Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty Images)
4. Technology watching robot MIS, working in the reactor vessel during the program operating at the plant «Bugey» in Saint-Vulbas, near Leon, April 19. (Reuters / Benoit Tessier)
5. US President Barack Obama decided to intervene to prevent the little robot to fall off the table, during a demonstration of robotic technology in high school in Miami on March 4. Obama visited the school with the former governor of Florida Jeb Bush and Education Minister Arn Duncan to consider the future of sponsoring education. (Reuters / Jason Reed) 82,247,310
6. 1, 58-meter-high humanoid robot «HRP-4C» Company AIST sings and dances at the exhibition of digital technology in Tokyo October 17, 2010. Company AIST has developed an entertainment software called "Horeonoid" - from the words choreography and humanoid. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP / Getty Images)
7. The robotic vehicle helps to protect the runway at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, November 2, 2010. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit) 24,297,635
8. The Italian professor Cesare Stefanini engineering school Santa Anna demonstrates minogopodobnogo robot in Nantes on April 7 during a meeting on the bionic robots. (Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty Images)
9. Children controlled robotic arms at the exhibition of science and engineering at Washington October 23, 2010. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin) 38,807,685
10. Model of unmanned combat air system X-47B completes its first flight at the air base in California on February 4th. As part of the demonstration program were installed capacity unobtrusive autonomous unmanned aircraft. (Reuters / US Navy / Northrop Grumman / LTJG Shawn P. Eklund) 92,191,315
11. Robot electron engineering department of National Taiwan University with a variety of facial expressions at the International Exhibition of robots on October 19 in Taiwan. Has not yet received the name of the robot consists of a head and torso in full size and was made to demonstrate the basic human emotions. (Reuters / Nicky Loh) 16,411,843
12. A remote controlled robot called "Packbot", includes the possibility to maneuver buildings, photographing and measuring the radiation level, it opens the door to the third reactor "Fukushima" 17 April. (Reuters / Tokyo Electric Power Co) 34,264,239
13. The robotic transporter debris removed from the territory of NPP "Fukushima" in the town of Okuma April 6. (AP Photo / Tokyo Electric Power Co.) 68,403,229
14. The apparatus «ReWalk», helping paralyzed patients to stand up and walk to the office in the Israeli town of Yokneam November 18, 2010. When Israeli entrepreneur Amit Gopher was paralyzed in a car accident in 1997, he started a project to help others walk. He invented an alternative to the wheelchair: robotic "pants" working on sensors and motors to allow paralyzed patients to stand, walk and even climb stairs. (AP Photo / Oded Balilty) 30,095,648
15. The professor of biomechanical engineering department of the University of Cuba Liu Hao with bionic robot hummingbird in Nantes on 7 April. About 200 technicians in the field biorobotizatsii from 17 countries attended the three-day exhibition of the latest inventions in the field of robotics. (Reuters / Stephane Mahe) 94,514,476
16. The robotic dinosaur approaching Nick Snyder (left) and Michael Olson of the organization "Walking with Dinosaurs" in Anchorage, Alaska, August 19, 2010. (AP Photo / Anchorage Daily News, Erik Hill)
17. "Person" (more precisely, the camera) NASA's newest Mars rover named «Curiosity» («Curiosity") in the Scientific Laboratory in Pasadena, California, April 4. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) 83,547,748
18. NASA engineers demonstrate the mega-rover «Curiosity» in a scientific laboratory in Pasadena. This rover should go into space in the autumn of 2011 and land on Mars in August of 2012. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) 74,421,903
19. Tools in the "hand" rover «Curiosity». With the built-in camera arm rover will take pictures of the Martian rocks and soil and, if any, ice. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) 20,111,279
20. Demonstration of the eye of the dummy in clinical simulation laboratories Technical College in Columbus, Indiana, on 23 February. The laboratory is part of a recent fashion in medicine use computerized mannequins and other technical support for training students. (AP Photo / The Republic, Joe Harpring) 35,742,072
21. Physical therapist Ryan Cardinal watches six-year old Anna Hood is robotically «Hocoma Lokomat» Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis, September 1, 2010. The hospital used robots to help children with cerebral palsy and other movement disorders. (AP Photo / The Indianapolis Star, Joe Vitti)
22. Mini-helicopter with two screws from the National Center for Scientific Research in Marseille Nantes on 7 April. (Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty Images)
23. Scientist Sebastian Bartsch manages the so-called "cosmic climber" - free to climb robots designed to penetrate the alien craters, November 22 at the German Research Centre in Bremen. (DAPD / Joerg Sarbach) 26,077,325
24. Robot piano at the International Exhibition of robots in Taipei October 19, 2010. The four-day exhibition was attended by 300 representatives from 66 companies. (Sam Yeh / AFP / Getty Images)
25. The robot Aila on IT-technology fair in Hanover March 3. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)
26. The robot bomb disposal inspects a jacket with a homemade bomb near a checkpoint in the al-Hamra Jordan March 25. Spokesman for the Israeli army said that soldiers found four makeshift bombs on two arrested Palestinians. (Reuters / Abed Omar Qusini) 38,305,530
27. An employee of the company «NTT Communications» tickles the ear of the robot to demonstrate "the illusion of being tickled" by the audio signal at a forum on research and technology development in Tokyo on 22 February. (AP Photo / Koji Sasahara) 91,928,315
28. The robot-sapper in the parking lot of the hotel «Kalahari Resort» with a suspicious object in Huron, Ohio, April 14. The authorities decided that it was just a research project abandonment. (AP Photo / The Sandusky Register, Luke Wark) 67,726,802
29. Haley Danisvich straining the muscles in the leg, in obedience to the instructions of the computer, which is attached by means of electrodes to her leg tells her when to bend the knee and ankle - which at the very Haley there for 12 years. Sophomore at Northwestern University, who lost the lower part of his left leg due to cancer of the bone, the computer learns to recognize its movement. Thus, it will be able to make a "bionic" leg - a robotic prosthesis that it could be controlled by their own nerves and muscles. Picture taken April 13 in Chicago. (Reuters / John Gress) 51,937,061
30. "orbital taxi» X-37B during testing in Titusville, Florida, on March 30. The first unmanned spacecraft 8, 8 meters long spent 220 days in orbit, during his first mission, successfully landed at the air base in California Vancouver December 3, 2010. (Reuters / U.S. Air Force) 33,235,172
31. Jordan Brindza robot takes the baseball field of the University of Pennsylvania, after he threw out the first ball before the match between the teams «Philadelphia Phillies» and «Milwaukee Brewers» April 20 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo / Matt Slocum) 52,000,203
32. Jeremy Schafer with one of several laptops installed in a room in the center of the Society of Lincoln in Mankato, Minnesota, December 4, 2010. Students use a laptop to program the robot on wheels that perform different tasks during the competition «Lego Robot». (AP Photo / Mankato Free Press, Pat Christman)
33. humanoid robot «Robovie PC-Lite» in the lead on the turn when the world's first marathon for two-legged robots in Osaka, Japan on 26 February. The distance of the marathon was 42, 195 km. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP / Getty Images)
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1. The robotic astronaut Robonaut R2A waving his "colleague» Robonaut R2B, which is sent into space aboard the shuttle «Discovery» on February 24th. (NASA / Joe Bibby) 56,744,348
2. Workers assemble robotic King Kong on the eve of the show «King Kong: Live on Stage» in the workshop of the company «Creature Theatre» in Melbourne. (AP Photo / Boneau / Bryan-Brown, Simon Schluter) 45,457,251
3. Robot US Army for mine detection and clearance of the work on the corridor Banadar, Garmsher District, Helmand Province, April 29. (Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty Images)
4. Technology watching robot MIS, working in the reactor vessel during the program operating at the plant «Bugey» in Saint-Vulbas, near Leon, April 19. (Reuters / Benoit Tessier)
5. US President Barack Obama decided to intervene to prevent the little robot to fall off the table, during a demonstration of robotic technology in high school in Miami on March 4. Obama visited the school with the former governor of Florida Jeb Bush and Education Minister Arn Duncan to consider the future of sponsoring education. (Reuters / Jason Reed) 82,247,310
6. 1, 58-meter-high humanoid robot «HRP-4C» Company AIST sings and dances at the exhibition of digital technology in Tokyo October 17, 2010. Company AIST has developed an entertainment software called "Horeonoid" - from the words choreography and humanoid. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP / Getty Images)
7. The robotic vehicle helps to protect the runway at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, November 2, 2010. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit) 24,297,635
8. The Italian professor Cesare Stefanini engineering school Santa Anna demonstrates minogopodobnogo robot in Nantes on April 7 during a meeting on the bionic robots. (Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty Images)
9. Children controlled robotic arms at the exhibition of science and engineering at Washington October 23, 2010. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin) 38,807,685
10. Model of unmanned combat air system X-47B completes its first flight at the air base in California on February 4th. As part of the demonstration program were installed capacity unobtrusive autonomous unmanned aircraft. (Reuters / US Navy / Northrop Grumman / LTJG Shawn P. Eklund) 92,191,315
11. Robot electron engineering department of National Taiwan University with a variety of facial expressions at the International Exhibition of robots on October 19 in Taiwan. Has not yet received the name of the robot consists of a head and torso in full size and was made to demonstrate the basic human emotions. (Reuters / Nicky Loh) 16,411,843
12. A remote controlled robot called "Packbot", includes the possibility to maneuver buildings, photographing and measuring the radiation level, it opens the door to the third reactor "Fukushima" 17 April. (Reuters / Tokyo Electric Power Co) 34,264,239
13. The robotic transporter debris removed from the territory of NPP "Fukushima" in the town of Okuma April 6. (AP Photo / Tokyo Electric Power Co.) 68,403,229
14. The apparatus «ReWalk», helping paralyzed patients to stand up and walk to the office in the Israeli town of Yokneam November 18, 2010. When Israeli entrepreneur Amit Gopher was paralyzed in a car accident in 1997, he started a project to help others walk. He invented an alternative to the wheelchair: robotic "pants" working on sensors and motors to allow paralyzed patients to stand, walk and even climb stairs. (AP Photo / Oded Balilty) 30,095,648
15. The professor of biomechanical engineering department of the University of Cuba Liu Hao with bionic robot hummingbird in Nantes on 7 April. About 200 technicians in the field biorobotizatsii from 17 countries attended the three-day exhibition of the latest inventions in the field of robotics. (Reuters / Stephane Mahe) 94,514,476
16. The robotic dinosaur approaching Nick Snyder (left) and Michael Olson of the organization "Walking with Dinosaurs" in Anchorage, Alaska, August 19, 2010. (AP Photo / Anchorage Daily News, Erik Hill)
17. "Person" (more precisely, the camera) NASA's newest Mars rover named «Curiosity» («Curiosity") in the Scientific Laboratory in Pasadena, California, April 4. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) 83,547,748
18. NASA engineers demonstrate the mega-rover «Curiosity» in a scientific laboratory in Pasadena. This rover should go into space in the autumn of 2011 and land on Mars in August of 2012. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) 74,421,903
19. Tools in the "hand" rover «Curiosity». With the built-in camera arm rover will take pictures of the Martian rocks and soil and, if any, ice. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) 20,111,279
20. Demonstration of the eye of the dummy in clinical simulation laboratories Technical College in Columbus, Indiana, on 23 February. The laboratory is part of a recent fashion in medicine use computerized mannequins and other technical support for training students. (AP Photo / The Republic, Joe Harpring) 35,742,072
21. Physical therapist Ryan Cardinal watches six-year old Anna Hood is robotically «Hocoma Lokomat» Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis, September 1, 2010. The hospital used robots to help children with cerebral palsy and other movement disorders. (AP Photo / The Indianapolis Star, Joe Vitti)
22. Mini-helicopter with two screws from the National Center for Scientific Research in Marseille Nantes on 7 April. (Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty Images)
23. Scientist Sebastian Bartsch manages the so-called "cosmic climber" - free to climb robots designed to penetrate the alien craters, November 22 at the German Research Centre in Bremen. (DAPD / Joerg Sarbach) 26,077,325
24. Robot piano at the International Exhibition of robots in Taipei October 19, 2010. The four-day exhibition was attended by 300 representatives from 66 companies. (Sam Yeh / AFP / Getty Images)
25. The robot Aila on IT-technology fair in Hanover March 3. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)
26. The robot bomb disposal inspects a jacket with a homemade bomb near a checkpoint in the al-Hamra Jordan March 25. Spokesman for the Israeli army said that soldiers found four makeshift bombs on two arrested Palestinians. (Reuters / Abed Omar Qusini) 38,305,530
27. An employee of the company «NTT Communications» tickles the ear of the robot to demonstrate "the illusion of being tickled" by the audio signal at a forum on research and technology development in Tokyo on 22 February. (AP Photo / Koji Sasahara) 91,928,315
28. The robot-sapper in the parking lot of the hotel «Kalahari Resort» with a suspicious object in Huron, Ohio, April 14. The authorities decided that it was just a research project abandonment. (AP Photo / The Sandusky Register, Luke Wark) 67,726,802
29. Haley Danisvich straining the muscles in the leg, in obedience to the instructions of the computer, which is attached by means of electrodes to her leg tells her when to bend the knee and ankle - which at the very Haley there for 12 years. Sophomore at Northwestern University, who lost the lower part of his left leg due to cancer of the bone, the computer learns to recognize its movement. Thus, it will be able to make a "bionic" leg - a robotic prosthesis that it could be controlled by their own nerves and muscles. Picture taken April 13 in Chicago. (Reuters / John Gress) 51,937,061
30. "orbital taxi» X-37B during testing in Titusville, Florida, on March 30. The first unmanned spacecraft 8, 8 meters long spent 220 days in orbit, during his first mission, successfully landed at the air base in California Vancouver December 3, 2010. (Reuters / U.S. Air Force) 33,235,172
31. Jordan Brindza robot takes the baseball field of the University of Pennsylvania, after he threw out the first ball before the match between the teams «Philadelphia Phillies» and «Milwaukee Brewers» April 20 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo / Matt Slocum) 52,000,203
32. Jeremy Schafer with one of several laptops installed in a room in the center of the Society of Lincoln in Mankato, Minnesota, December 4, 2010. Students use a laptop to program the robot on wheels that perform different tasks during the competition «Lego Robot». (AP Photo / Mankato Free Press, Pat Christman)
33. humanoid robot «Robovie PC-Lite» in the lead on the turn when the world's first marathon for two-legged robots in Osaka, Japan on 26 February. The distance of the marathon was 42, 195 km. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP / Getty Images)
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