"It was just a project to see how small we could make robots." Mr. Spletzer came to the museum with a gift box of mini-robots that include the Miniature Autonomous Robotic Vehicle or MARV.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

Secretary Gates spent his final hours in Iraqi Kurdistan, meeting with the President of the semi-autonomous region, Massoud Barzani.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

"It's ready to fly, it's a completely autonomous electric airplane now, meaning that it has its own electronics battery and motor."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

In the northern province of Irbil, part of the autonomous Kurdistan region, the Kurdish Alliance was ahead, officials said.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

He says a crackdown in the semi-autonomous Puntland region has meant the prisons are full of pirates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

"The same thing is true in the Uighur autonomous region with Muslim clerics and others.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

In recent years, there have been several attempted and successful kidnappings of western journalists in southern Somalia and in the northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The U.N.Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Juba,South Sudan,Lise Grande, says the number of internal conflicts in the semi-autonomous region has risen from last year's levels.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Each of China's provinces, autonomous regions and special administrative regions contributed a float.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

U.S.officials have long said they believe al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his top commanders shifted their base of operation from Afghanistan to Pakistan's largely autonomous tribal regions after coalition forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30