But the design is smart, it pulses while animating the display, making you feel like the machine is an intelligent robot butler, making the soda perfect just for you.

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Ongoing research includes the development of socially intelligent robot partners that interact with humans in human-centric terms, work with humans as peers, and learn from people as an apprentice.

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Melhuish, who is director of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab at the UWE, told CNN that the EcoBot II was a result of a quest for an intelligent robot that could function without human supervision.

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But bringing it back to the new age-old question what is a robot, Bokhari believes a robot is an intelligent, autonomous machine capable of doing a range of specialized tasks.

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According to Brooks, in the short term the first places we will see this next generation of intelligent, collaborative and trainable robot like Baxter, is on production lines where robots will be used by factory floor workers to do the truly dull and repetitive jobs, freeing up those workers to do tasks that require more dexterity and judgment.

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