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Includes classroom activities, a timeline. One section of particular interest is 'Machines and Man: ethics and robotics in the 21st Century'.

MIT site about an expressive anthropomorphic robot called Kismet that engages people in natural and expressive face-to-face interaction. Includes videos and good explanations.

This website accompanies the book of the same title, a must read for ITGS teachers. The website includes lots of videos of robots in action, images of robots with detailed captions, videos of the author's appearances including a TED conference, a classroom discussion guide, and lots of information about the book including a lengthy excerpt. First rate material. Goes beyond robotics with excellent explanations of the technology.

Sandra, I really like this resource. Could you add the 2.6_military tag to it please?

"The da Vinci Surgical System consists of an \nergonomically designed surgeon's console, a patient-side cart with four \ninteractive robotic arms, the high-performance InSite® Vision System and \npropriet..."

UK opens a centre for Robotic Surgery

Mobile robots are now being used in hundreds of hospitals nationwide as the eyes, ears and voices of doctors who cannot be there in person. They are being rolled out in workplaces, allowing employees in disparate locales to communicate more easily and letting managers supervise employees from afar. And they are being tested as caregivers in assisted-living centers.