Your own Robocleaner!

  Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, have designed a humanoid robot. The robot, ARMAR, can process a persons commands and gestures and respond to them. If I asked for a bottle of water from the fridge, it would go to the fridge and get me one. It can also learn from human actions, such as emptying the trash can. It is able to do this as it is equipped with sensors and cameras. Here's a video clip of it.

-Mithil Hari

Intelligent Robots

 I was surfing the web when I came across an article , that states that  new robots will be able to process data from their surroundings without a human telling them to. Its supposed to be done
with a low cost camera like the one in the Microsoft Kinect. The camera will build a three dimensional model of the environment, as the robot moves around, it also will be able to detect any changes in the build by comparing the previous images with the latest.

 This would overall, allow the robot to move around a building by
creating a course for it without any human input. Let's hope it works!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120216134110.htm