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Caterpillar TruckThe robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up with the newly formed automation department of Caterpillar, the construction equipment makers famous for these formidable trucks capable of shifting a 240 ton payload.

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TumbleweedStudents from Manchester University have produced this prototype pair of robots for the Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge, a competition set up by the MoD to uncover new talent across the UK for military hardware use.

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Robot with biological brain

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GordonMeet Gordon, the worlds first robot controlled entirely with living brain tissue, the primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading just been put through its paces.

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TartaloThe University of the Basque country in Spain has unveiled its latest creation called Tartalo and it hasĀ  the ability to recognise different doors and decide before entering whether its necessary to knock.

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SnailbotAn Institute for Technology isn’t the most likely location for a terrarium but the mechanical engineering department at the one in Massachusetts has, and its full of snails as part of a movement study.

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