Robo-Roundup #7

This Robo-Roundup features cool new robots that can juggle to ones that have human qualities. I hope you enjoy it!

1. One of the biggest robotics questions of all: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/why-we-should-build-humanlike-robots

2. This robot has human like emotions: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/reeti-wants-to-be-your-htpc-for-some-reason

3. A new robot that will appear in the classrooms: http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=27295

4. The Da Vinci robotics surgical system folds a paper airplane: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/01/surgical-robot-builds-tiny-paper-airplane-video/

5. The well known iRobot "packbot 510" is helping in Japan: http://tokyotek.com/robots-recruited-to-help-battle-radiation-problem/

So I hope you have enjoyed this weeks roundup and we hope you read next weeks too!