Top 10 amazing robots in the world

Amazing robots in the world….

Robots, once considered a luxury for many countries, have been increasingly penetrating fields as diverse as outer space explorationand ordinary daily services. According to a

report released by HIS, an international information company, about 52,000 industrial robotsare expected to be sold by 2017, generating a market value of $1.3 billion.

Let’s take a look at some of the world’s most awesome robots that may catch your eye.

No 10 “PR2”

Robot ‘PR2’, developed by Willow Garage – a company best known for its open-source software suite Robot Operating System in theUnited States, can experimentally do household tasks and is part of a Europe-wide project.

Robot ‘PR2’ flips a pancake in a laboratory kitchen of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Informatics and Automationof Bremen University in Bremen, Germany, Feb 27, 2013. [Photo / CFP]

No 9 Kirobo

The 34-cm high robot astronaut, born in the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, wasannounced as the first robot that was able to speak in outer space. The talking robot was set to be employed as ‘companion’ toJapanese astronaut Kochi Wakata, who is expected to take command of the ISS later last year.

File photo released by Kibo Robot Project on Sept 5, 2013. [Photo / CFP]

No 8 Coloning “Bertolt Meyer”

World’s first-ever bionic man that can breathe, walk and talk is 6-foot tall and built entirely from bionic body parts and implantablesynthetic organs. All artificial organs were donated by 17 companies worldwide. The robot worth roughly $1 million was based onBertolt Meyer, a social psychologist in University of Zurich, Switzerland.

The first-ever bionic man stands on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the UnitedStates, Oct 18, 2013. [Photo / CFP]

No 7 “Compressorhead”

The robotic band has three members: a four-arm drummer “Stickboy”, a 78-finger guitarist “Fingures”, and a top-notch bassist “Bones”.Their maiden performance tour started from Australia last year.

The robotic band “Compressorhead” perform during a concert in Union Square in New York, Nov 12, 2013. [Photo / CFP]

No 6 Robot jockeys

Robot jockeys are used and include shock absorbers and GPS tracking systems. The camel’s owners control the robot’s whips fromtheir speeding four wheel drives at the side of the track. Throroughbred racing camels can be as valuable as $1 million.

No 5 Porton Man

It is a newly unveiled robot mannequin that will help test the next generation of chemical and biological protective suits for the UK’sarmed forces. The Porton Man can walk, march, run, sit, kneel and even mimic the movement of a soldier sighting a weapon, allowingscientists to test the suits designed to protect UK personnel from chemical and biological attacks such as nerve agents like Sarin.

“Porton Man” is pictured at DSTL’s (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) research facility in the UK. [Photo / IC]

No 4 RoboThespian

British humanoid robot RoboThespian, designed by Engineered Arts Ltd, is adept at performing and taking pictures.

British humanoid robot RoboThespian designed by Engineered Arts Ltd looks on at a presentation at Moscow’s Bosco café, Moscow, Russia, April 22, 2014. [Photo / CFP]

No 3 Actroid-F

Humanoid robot, considered the world’s most beautiful robot, is able to make eye contact and communicate with human beings freely.

Hiroshi Ishiguro (L), a leading international researcher on robotics and director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at OsakaUniversity, showcases a robot during the 2014 Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing

No 2 Valkryie

The 1.9-meter automaton – complete with glowing NASA logo – was designed in nine months by a team of engineers at NASA’sJohnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to help humans during disasters and, as with all the other entrants, will be tested in a seriesof scenarios it might encounter in extreme situations – driving a vehicle, cleaning debris and cutting through a wall.

Robot Valkryie. [Photo / IC]

No 1 Robotic pole dancers 

Pair of robots, made from discarded auto parts by British artist Giles Walker, perform pole dance once music starts playing.

Robots perform a pole dance at the booth of the Tobit Software company on the eve of the 2014 CeBIT technology trade fair on March9, 2014, in Hanover, central Germany. [Photo / Chinanews.com]