Right now, the researchers only have a small, 15-chip array on a robot arm.
Astronauts released the unmanned SpaceX capsule, named Dragon, from the end of the space station's giant robot arm.
Curiosity's robot arm will drill into the Martian rocks and feed the powdered samples into its onboard chemistry laboratory.
Astronaut Stephen Robinson rode a robot arm under the belly of the shuttle and plucked the loose fabric out with his fingers.
The innovation - which pairs a GPS-equipped smartphone with a robot arm - can guide engineers to the right location using augmented reality.
Dr Minguez is also part of a group developing a robot arm that could help patients reach for a drink or feed themselves.
Last year, researchers published a video of a paralyzed woman using a robot arm to feed herself chocolate by thinking about it.
Computer problems have kept the Endeavour at the station longer than expected as astronauts try to carry out operations of a critical robot arm.
Behind a tinted glass panel 18-carat gold powder, laid down by a robot arm, sparkles as a laser fuses the metal into complex three-dimensional shapes, layer by layer.
The heavy lifting was then left to space station resident astronaut Susan Helms who used the station's new robot arm to pluck the Quest from the shuttle's cargo bay.
If needed, staff in a control centre can see and hear everything the field engineer is seeing and hearing via the camera and microphone mounted on the robot arm.
Its Warrior and 110 FirstLook bots are built for the military, and now the Advanced Inflatable Robot (AIR) arm model is joining its armed forces brethren.
Now it has taken an order from Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), which wants to try the hand out on the arm of a robot used for bomb disposal.
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Early last year Honda demonstrated how their robot Asimo could lift an arm or a leg through signals sent wirelessly from a system operated by a user with an EEG cap.
"It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand that its arm is on it not on the other side of the mirror, " Justin Hart, the PhD student leading the research told BBC News.
And in the dual-arm configuration, the robot can lift over 11o pounds.
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Nick Savadian, executive general manager of the company's U.S. arm, said the robot is aimed at busy homeowners looking for a labor-saving escape from boring chores.
Bristling with sensors, antennas, a laser and a robotic arm, the Curiosity robot, about the size of a small SUV, is twice the length and four times the weight of any of the three prior rovers that explored Mars.
So far the robot has been programmed to recognise a reflection of its arm, but ultimately Mr Hart wants it to pass the "full mirror test".
It transmits a laser beam through an optical cable to a robot, which angles lenses and mirrors in the end of its arm to aim the laser towards the parts that need welding.
To speed rescue efforts, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot that would eliminate some of the unknowns of mine rescue operations and arm first responders with the most valuable tool: information.
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The robot can detect the brain signal corresponding to a person thinking about moving an arm, and then move the arm.
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