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Humanoid Robot AILA is Being Trained to Work on the International Space Station (July 28, 2012): DFKI Bremen's humanoid robot AILA is being trained to work on the International Space Station (ISS).

Japanese Researchers Create Face and Torso for Child Robot Named Affetto (July 27, 2012): Affetto is a child robot being developed by researchers at Osaka University's Asada Lab.

Mantabot: University of Virginia Engineers Building Robotic Ray (July 26, 2012): robots oceans

Humanoid Robot Given Expressive Face (July 11, 2012): Researchers have developed an animation engine that helps give realistic looking facial expressions to a humanoid robot.

Mahoro Robot Does Dangerous Lab Work (July 7, 2012): Mahoro is a robot designed to operate in dangerous labs.

Robot Legs Mimic Human Walking Gait (July 6, 2012): Researchers from the University of Arizona have developed robotic legs that mimic the human walking gait.

Video: RoboCup 2012 Kid Size Final: USA vs Japan (June 30, 2012): USA played Japan in the Kid Sized category at the RoboCup 2012.

Georgia Tech Researchers Create Musical Robot Companion (June 27, 2012): Georgia Tech researchers have created Shimi, a musical robot companion.

Cheating Robot Hand Beats Humans at Rock, Paper, Scissors Every Time (June 26, 2012): Automaton reports on a robot hand created by developers at the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Tokyo.

Korea's First Humanoid Robot Was Inspired by the Centaur from Greek Mythology (June 13, 2012): Korea's Institute of Science and Technology developed this robot, called Centaur, in the late 1990s.

Last Moment Robot Comforts Dying Humans (June 9, 2012): Last Moment Robot is part of Last Moment Hospital, an interactive installation created by Dan Chen.

Swumanoid is a Swimming Humanoid Robot (June 9, 2012): Chung Changhyun and Motomu Nakashima at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have created Swumanoid, a swimming humanoid robot.

Robot Taught to Mimic Pendulum-like Ledge Escape Technique of Cockroaches and Geckos (June 7, 2012): Researchers at UC Berkeley's PolyPEDAL Lab have trained their hexapod robot, named Dash, to make sudden seemingly impossible turns on ledges.

Joggobot is a Quadcopter That Flies Next to Joggers (June 4, 2012): Researchers at the Exertion Games Lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have created Joggobot, a Parrot AR.

NASA to Send Unmanned Aircraft Over Hurricanes This Year (June 2, 2012): NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above hurricanes this season to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about hurricane formation and intensity changes.

Purple Robotic Device Tries to Brachiate Like a Gibbon (May 31, 2012): IEEE Spectrum reports that researchers at Northwestern University's Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems have built a purple robot called Gibbot.

Japanese Researchers Develop Wearable Telepresence Robot (May 29, 2012): Automaton reports on the MH-2, which is a small, wearable telepresence robot developed by Japanese researchers at Yamagata University.

Researchers Create Laser Guided Bubble Microrobots (May 22, 2012): Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have created tiny robots made of bubbles that are guided by lasers.

Scientists Create Clothbot, a Clothes Climbing Robot (May 18, 2012): Researchers from China's Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology have created Clothbot, a robot that can climb a wide variety of clothing.

LumiBots Create Patterns of Light (May 17, 2012): These small, autonomous robots react to light.

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robot Arm With Her Mind (May 17, 2012): Researchers at Brown University have developed BrainGate, an advanced brain-machine interface that enables a person to control a robot arm with their mind.

Headless, One-Armed Robot Juggles Two Balls (May 16, 2012): Japanese researchers at Chiba University have taught a dexterous headless one-armed robot to juggle two balls with its one hand.

Japanese Researchers Create Buttocks Robot (May 10, 2012): Japanese researchers have created a strange buttocks robot named SHIRI.

Robot Legs Maintain Balance Despite Being Kicked From Multiple Angles (May 9, 2012): IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog reports on a self-balancing robot named HRP3L-JSK, which was created by Junichi Urata and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab.

AILA Robot Learns How to Pack Shoes (May 4, 2012): AILA, a curvy autonomous robot with white plastic hair, rides on a mobile platform consisting of six wheels.