Google I/O 2011 talk: the emergence of Cloud Robotics

TED Talk by Rodney Brooks: Why we will rely on robots

This is recent talk given by prof. Rodney Brooks on why robots seem to become part of our present and future, from industry to our everyday life.

A robot that flies like a bird

Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

Nanorobots and their potential in medicine

A stimulating TED talk by Dr. Ido Bachelet, on how nanorobots could revolutionalize medicine (among other things...)