The “Power Driven Articulated Dummy” was designed by the IIT Research Institute for NASA to testing the space suits at first half of 1960s.   The testing conducted in the… Read More

Philae lander was found by Rosetta’s high-resolution camera on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.   Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko Philae found! / Rosetta / Space… Read More

Multi-aircraft complex “Gorlytsa” is designed by SE “Antonov”, in cooperation with leading enterprises of Ukraine. This will be the first domestic tactical unmanned… Read More

The technology startup company “nuTonomy” launched autonomous taxi service, a first in the world, as a pilot project in Singapore on 25 August 2016. Now the car fleet of “… Read More

Military parade in honor of the 25th anniversary of Independence of Ukraine in Kiev on August 24, 2016.   Парад в чест… Read More

The final stage of practical training of operators of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) was held on Training Ground of Airborne Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is located in Zhy… Read More

In Ukraine there are only three autonomous modules for mine clearance and verification of risk areas in case of terrorist threats and battle actions.   Авак… Read More

SPARCS (which is an acronym for “Soldier Parachute Aerial Reconnaissance Camera System”) – a disposable reconnaissance miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in form of g… Read More

A-12 “Uragan” – Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), that was created by Kharkov Design Bureau “Vzlet” of &ldqu&helli…Read More

A-12 “Uragan” – Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), that was created by Kharkov Design Bureau “Vzlet” of &ldquo&hell…Read More

“Kaiko” – a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for exploration of the deep sea. The res… Read More

“Kaiko” – a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for exploration of the deep sea. The rese… Read More

“Sokіl-2” – Ukrainian unmanned reconnaissance aircraft (UAV), which is a joint development of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic In… Read More

Exosuit atmospheric diving system (ADS) is hard metal dive suit allows divers to operate safely down to a depth of 300 meters and yet still have exceptional dexterity and flexibility to per… Read More

The Aerosonde is a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to collect weather data, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, and wind measurements, over oceans and remote… Read More

The Position-controlling apparatus is device for controlling the movement and positioning of a spray gun for controlling it in its movement with respect to curved or irregular surfaces to b… Read More

The Harvest Automation HV-100 (it is nicknamed “Harvey”) is a plant container moving robot capable of handling all of the plant spacing, consolidation and collection needs in a… Read More

Atlas is a bipedal humanoid robot primarily developed by the American robotics company Boston Dynamics, with funding and oversight from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects… Read More

The Tu-123 «Yastreb» (another designation: DBR-1) – supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), created by the Tupolev Design Bureau (Tupolev OKB-156) at the early 1960s in… Read More

Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC, is an un-tethered, hydraulic-powered anthropomorphic exoskeleton developed by Professor H. Kazerooni and his team at Ekso Bionics (formerly Berkeley B… Read More

Robotug is a mobile automatic transport truck (TT), created by British multinational company EMI. This device is able to carry a cargo directly or a set of the trolleys.[1] Robotug tran… Read More

The Guardium is an Israeli military Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), created by G-NIUS, an joint venture company, established by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems.[1-9]… Read More

The Aerial Target is the first radio-controlled unmanned aircraft, designed by Henry P. Folland with radio gear by Archibald M. Low, built during (1916) and shortly after World War I at the… Read More

Collecting the samples of lunar soil and delivery them to Earth was a part of the Luna program, that included a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union be… Read More

ASIMO (which is an acronym for Advanced Step in Innovative MObility) is an android created by Honda, Japanese public multinational company. This robot was created to be a helper to people… Read More

Unimate was the first patented industrial robot, which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961. It was created by Ge… Read More

The iRobot 510 PackBot is a series of military robots by iRobot Corporation (USA). It is one of the most successful battle-tested robots in the world. Modular, adaptable and expandable, Pac… Read More

Shakey the robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each individual step of completing… Read More

The Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout is a multipurpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – helicopter, developed by Northrop Grumman for use by the United States Armed Forces. The first f… Read More

The da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic surgical equipment made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. and designed to facilitate complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. The da Vinci Sys… Read More

Geminoid is an android that looks and moves like its prototype with very high level of resemblance. The first model of this robot (was developed in 2006), Geminoid HI-1, was the cybernetic… Read More

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Microsoft RDS, MRDS) is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and h… Read More

SpringWalker Exoskelton is a self-actuated spring-action human bipedal device that includes a back-mounted frame attached to the upper torso of a user, and separate articulated right and le… Read More

The TALON robot is a small tracked military system, designed by the Foster-Miller company (USA) for wide range of missions (from reconnaissance to combat). It can move through sand, water… Read More

Since 1990 Theo Jansen, Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor, builds huge structures that resemble skeletons of animals which are able to move under the influence of wind on the sandy beaches… Read More

“Crusher” is an autonomous off-road Unmanned Ground Combat System developed by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center for Def… Read More

The Adaptive Suspension Vehicle (ASV) is a six-legged robotic system designed for sustained locomotion on unstructured terrain. The ASV project was initiated in January 1981 under the lead o… Read More

In 1923 – 1924, the Special technical bureau for military inventions of special purpose (Ostekhbyuro – local abbreviation) has started the works at creation of the radio-controll… Read More

HAL (the Hybrid Assistive Limb) is a powered exoskeleton suit currently in development by Tsukuba University in Japan. There are currently two prototypes: HAL-3 (restoring of the leg functio… Read More

“Moon Walker” is the eight-legged walking chair, designed by space engineers to aid children with disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Moon Walker walking chair.  &nb&hell…Read More

Six-legged walking harvester “Plusjack” was developed in 1999 by the “Plustech” Finnish company (the advanced research and development unit of “Timberjack&rdquo&hell…Read More

The «Voyager» program [1] is a United States project for study the distant planets of Solar System, that launched the unmanned space missions, scientific probes «Voyager-1… Read More

The iBOT is a robotic wheelchair developed by Dean Kamen in a partnership between DEKA and Johnson and Johnson’s Independence Technology division. It is a medical technology, made to h… Read More

In 1965 at the University of Southern California R. McGhee and A. Frank constructed four-legged walking machine, known as «The Californian Horse» or «Phony Pony». Thi… Read More

Boeing X-37B, the Orbital Test Vehicle (X-37B OTV), is an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff (with using of rocket), horizontal-landing spaceplane.[1] Boeing X-37B in fairing. &nb&hell…Read More

In 1963 N. Mizen (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo NY) has developed a passive exoskeleton, which was able to register (with big precision) the movements of all parts of the body exc… Read More

The world’s first Soviet Mars rovers had name: Instrument of evaluation of maneuverability – Mars (PrOP-M, local abbreviation). They were designed and manufactured by VNIItransma… Read More

Adaptive walking machine with hydraulic actuator was designed by M. Ignatiev in USSR.[1] Robot had 6 multilink “spidery” legs. PhD in Technical Sciences, Professor Mikhail B. Ig… Read More

The tragic events at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986 in USSR [1-5] caused the need of the urgent creation of unmanned robotic vehicles with remote control. Such specialized trans… Read More

Mondo Spider is a ridable mechanical eight-legged walking machine. It was designed and built in 2005 and 2006 by team, based in Vancouver (Canada): Leigh Christie, Jonathan Tippett, Charlie… Read More

During World War II, German Navy (Kriegsmarine) used the Linse radio-controlled boats. This boat was designed for diversion operations to undermine the enemy ships. Linse had a length of 5… Read More

Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria (lived and worked in Alexandria in the second half of the first century A.D., Roman Egypt) invented the first automatic doors, automatic… Read More

In the early 1970s, M. Petternella with a group of colleagues (Institute of Automation, Rome, Italy – Istituto di Automatica, Rome, Italy) has created a six-legged walking machine with… Read More

The Roomba is a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot Corporation (USA). This robot is able to navigate a living space and common obstacles while vacuuming the floor. N… Read More

The IAI Eitan, also known as Heron TP, is a reconnaissance Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed in Israel in the early 2000s by the Israel Aerospace Industries.[1] A medium-altitude, lon… Read More

In 1898 Nikola Tesla publicly demonstrated a radio-controlled (teleoperated) boat, similar to a modern Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV).[1] Tesla’s remote-controlled craft.  &n&hell…Read More

Mobile Autonomous Robot (MAR-1) was developed by the Department of Agriculture robotics at the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers named after V.P. Goryachkin in the early 1980s in th… Read More

KUKA Aktiengesellschaft (Germany) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of robotics as well as plant and systems engineering.[1] In 1973 KUKA created the world’s first industr… Read More

The Mobile Servicing System (MSS), better known by its primary component Canadarm2, is a robotic system and associated equipment on the International Space Station (ISS). Launched to the ISS… Read More

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station in 2005 in… Read More

ReWalk is a wearable, motorized exoskeleton suit which was developed by Argo Medical Technologies Ltd (Israel). ReWalk tool enables wheelchair users with lower-limb disabilities to stand, wa… Read More

The animated dolls, The Draughtsman, The Musician and The Writer, were constructed by Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721–1790), his son Henri-Louis (1752-1791), and Jean-Fr… Read More

Soviet robotic complex “Klin-1” was created for liquidation of the consequences of accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which occurred on April 26, 1986.[1-4] [10] The… Read More

In 1934-1935 the autonomous underwater special vessel (project code – APSS) was created in the USSR. The work was carried out by the Special technical bureau for military inventions of… Read More

During World War II, the German army (Wehrmacht) used three remotely operated Tracked mines: the light Goliath (Sd.Kfz. 302/303a/303b), the medium Springer (Sd.Kfz. 304) and the heavy Borgwa… Read More

Lunokhod is a series (Lunokhod-0, Lunokhod-1, Lunokhod-2, Lunokhod-3) of the Soviet remote controlled self-propelled apparatuses for exploration of Moon. History of the creation of Soviet a… Read More

Teletanks are the series (Reno-russky, T-18, TT-18, TT-27, TT-26, TT-BT-7, T-55, T-72B) of the remotely controlled unmanned robotic tanks produced in the Soviet Union in the 1920s – 19… Read More