The robots are coming!

Japanese "female" robot

The robot, named HRP-4C, has 30 motors in its body that allow it to walk and move its arms as well as eight motors on its face to create expressions like anger and surprise.

California vineyard robot

Key to the Intellgent Robotic Vineyard Pruner are stereoscopic scanning cameras that take 15 frames per second, scanning the entire vine and working a full vine length ahead of the pruning shears. As Morikawa explained, "This 'vision' is the key sense the machine needs; otherwise it can't understand the vine and prune intelligently."

Canadian rescue robot

ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, March 16 (UPI) -- A remote-controlled robot retrieved nine bodies Monday from a crashed Canadian helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean east of Newfoundland, police said.

Mayo Clinic robotic surgeon

The medical team placed the plastic-covered, computerized robot. Head Surgeon Rakesh Suri snaps on the slender arm extensions that will slip through Gilmet's ribs.
With another cardiac surgeon closely watching over the patient, Dr. Suri is ready to operate without a gown, in stocking feet from a console ten feet away.
"It's like a video game in many ways," Dr. Suri says.