This handout of combination pictures by Korea Institute of Science and Technology shows Mahru, a new robot, dancing in the institute's showroom in Seoul. The robot developed by the state-funded Korea Institute of Science and Technology can move its lips, eyebrows and even pupils freely to make faces and can emit two kinds of fragrances to match its emotions.
London: Scientists have built a two-legged robot called MABEL that can run like a human and reach a record speed of 6.8mph. The makers of the robot predict that the technology they are refining will bring amazing benefits for the human race. "We envision some extraordinary potential applications for legged robot research - exoskeletons that enable wheelchair-bound people to walk again or that give rescuers super-human abilities, and powered prosthetic limbs that behave like their biological counterparts," the Daily Mail quoted one of the developers, engineering expert Jonathan Hurst from Oregon State University, as saying. Professor Jessy Grizzle, from the University of Michigan, where MABEL was built, also stressed how useful human-like robots could be. "The robotics community has been trying to come up with machines that can go places where humans can go, so a human morphology is important. Source: Hindustan Times
