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21.06, Saturday 8 Jan 2011 Link to this post

A review of the best robots of 2010: balance, telepresence (it would be seriously creepy to replace Skype with a squirming robot fetus, but that's the future), robot cars, flying things (sadly nothing as beautiful as the robot air penguins), puzzle solving robot hands, and tree climbers.


 

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