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June 21, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robo-mate-first-exoskeleton-industry/38004/pictures"> 8 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robo-mate-first-exoskeleton-industry/38004/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/robo-mate.jpg" title=""> </a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>The development of powered exoskeletons has so far been largely restricted to the laboratory, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-significantly-progresses-exoskeleton-design/16479/" target="_blank">military</a>, and areas such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/rewalk-fda-approval-personal-use/32732/" target="_blank">rehabilitation therapy</a>. This kind of technology also has obvious potential in industry, where constant heavy lifting is still very much a part of many working lives. Recently in Stuttgart, the Robo-Mate project unveiled an exoskeleton designed specifically for industrial use that can make 10 kilos feel like 1.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robo-mate-first-exoskeleton-industry/38004/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--news-byte" data-article="38079"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38079"> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/pepper-robot-release/38079/">Pepper the robot recognizes your emotions and shows its own</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/author/stu-robarts/" rel="author">Stu Robarts</a> </span> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/pepper-robot-release/38079/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/pepper-robot-release.jpg" title=""> </a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>Japanese tech firm SoftBank has announced that its emotion-sensing robot, Pepper, will go on sale in Japan from June 20. The company says that Pepper is the world’s first personal robot that can read a person's emotions. In addition, it has been designed to portray emotions of its own.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/pepper-robot-release/38079/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="37668"> <div class="article-top" data-article="37668"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/"> — Robotics </a> <a class="label label-solid" href="/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/features/"> Feature </a> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/shakey-robot-sri-fiftieth-anniversary/37668/">Fifty years of Shakey, the "world's first electronic person"</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> </span> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/shakey-robot-sri-fiftieth-anniversary/37668/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/shakey-fifty.jpg" title=""> </a> </div> <div class="summary"> Robots are increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives and many roboticists believe that we are on the verge of a robot revolution that will do for goods and services what the Internet did for information. If so, then a lot of the credit goes to a 50 year old box on wheels called Shakey: the "world's first electronic person."<p></p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/shakey-robot-sri-fiftieth-anniversary/37668/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="37890"> <div class="article-top" data-article="37890"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/"> — Robotics </a> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/behind-the-scenes-darpa-robotics-challenge/37890/">Backstage with the world's most advanced robots</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - June 16, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/behind-the-scenes-darpa-robotics-challenge/37890/pictures"> 24 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/behind-the-scenes-darpa-robotics-challenge/37890/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/drc-2015-garage.JPG" title=""> </a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>We've looked closely at the on track action at the recent <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-drc-finals-2015-results-kaist-win/37914/">2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge</a>, but there's a lot more to the story. Gizmag went behind the scenes to explore the "garage" where the teams tended their sophisticated charges in order to learn more about what makes the world's most advanced robots tick.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/behind-the-scenes-darpa-robotics-challenge/37890/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="37975"> <div class="article-top" data-article="37975"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/"> — Robotics </a> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/interview-lockheed-martin-drc-robotics/37975/">Interview: Lockheed Martin's Todd Danko on the DRC Finals and the future of robotics</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - June 14, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/interview-lockheed-martin-drc-robotics/37975/pictures"> 10 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/interview-lockheed-martin-drc-robotics/37975/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/drc-lockheed-interview.jpg" title=""> </a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>One of the 24 teams competing at the <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-drc-finals-2015-results-kaist-win/37914/">2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge</a> – and the only team fielded by a large private company – was Lockheed Martin's Team Trooper and its robot Leo. To find out more about what goes into programming a humanoid robot and the future of robotics, we talked to the team leader, Todd Danko.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/interview-lockheed-martin-drc-robotics/37975/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="37906"> <div class="article-top" data-article="37906"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/"> — Robotics </a> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/drc-robotics-technology/37906/">Advanced robotics technology showcased at DRC</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - June 13, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/drc-robotics-technology/37906/pictures"> 67 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/drc-robotics-technology/37906/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/drc-2015-exhibition.JPG" title=""> </a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>The recent <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627031355/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-drc-finals-2015-results-kaist-win/37914/">2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals</a> saw the world's most advanced robots facing off against one another, but outside the grandstand was a whole other show as universities, companies, and DARPA itself staged an exhibition of the latest in robots and robotic technology. 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