Illustration Photo: Agricultural drone at Steve & Lizabeth Sigdestad Farm (credits: USDA NRCS South Dakota / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Agricultural drone at Steve & Lizabeth Sigdestad Farm (credits: USDA NRCS South Dakota / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Photo d'illustration: Drone agricole à la ferme Steve & Lizabeth Sigdestad (credits: USDA NRCS South Dakota / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Photo: Bonirob Data Aquisition at the Campus Klein-Altendorf (Bonn) (credits: The Flourish project / Michael Ruhnke, University of Freiburg)

Photo: Le drone Uavia survolant une centrale électrique (crédit: Uavia)

Photo: Le drone Uavia survolant une centrale électrique (crédit: Uavia)

Illustration Photo: Drone uses in Life saving Operation (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Drone uses in Life saving Operation (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Photo d'illustration: Drone utilisé pour les missions de sauvetage (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Robot (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Robot (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Dairy farming (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Dairy farming (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Photo d'illustration: Véhicule de surface autonome de l'Université d'Ulsan, Corée du Sud (credits: U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released / Office of Naval Research / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Photo: Le transport effectué par les robots facilite et optimise le travail des ouvriers tout en réduisant le temps de production de 25 % (crédits: PRNewsfoto/SEAT SA)

Photo: LG CLOi robots (credit: LG)

Photo: LG CLOi robots (credit: LG)

Photo: Les robots CLOi de LG (credit: LG)

Photo: Toyota's Advanced Safety Research Vehicle (credit: Toyota)

Photo: Toyota's Advanced Safety Research Vehicle (credit: Toyota)

Photo: Robotic mowers in an urban park (credit: Husqvarna)

Photo: Robotic mowers in an urban park (credit: Husqvarna)

Photo: VR system from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could make it easier for factory workers to telecommute. (Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL)

Illustration Photo: Robots at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (credits: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: Corporate / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Robots at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (credits: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: Corporate / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Photo: The robot In situ Fabricator, equipped with the Mesh Mould toolhead (left), and the Mesh Mould prototype with double-curved geometry (right) at the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory of ETH Zurich. (Image: NCCR Digital Fabrication)

Photo: The robot In situ Fabricator, equipped with the Mesh Mould toolhead (left), and the Mesh Mould prototype with double-curved geometry (right) at the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory of ETH Zurich. (Image: NCCR Digital Fabrication)

Illustration Photo: BoniRob, Bosch Deepfield Robotics (credits: Robert Bosch)

Illustration Photo: BoniRob, Bosch Deepfield Robotics (credits: Robert Bosch)

Illustration Photo: Directed by customized controllers and algorithms, a powerful industrial robot (left) uses a Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) tool (at end of blue arm) to perform precise and minute maneuvers on RRM flight hardware (right). (credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Directed by customized controllers and algorithms, a powerful industrial robot (left) uses a Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) tool (at end of blue arm) to perform precise and minute maneuvers on RRM flight hardware (right). (credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Picture: A one-of-a-kind 3D printer built at the University of Minnesota can print touch sensors directly on a model hand. Credit: Shuang-Zhuang Guo and Michael McAlpine, University of Minnesota, "3D Printed Stretchable Tactile Sensors," Advanced Materials. 2017. Copyright Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

Photo d'illustration: robot serveur au Japon (crédits: Olivier Ezratty / Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Photo: Le poste de travail 4.0 de Bosch (crédit: Bosch)

Photo d'illustration: Pepper possède un ensemble de systèmes pour optimiser sa sécurité et celle des personnes à proximité. Ses capteurs lui permettent de détecter son environnement et ainsi adapter sa position et ses mouvements. (crédits: patrick janicek / Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Illustration Photo: Robot (Public Domain from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Artificial Intelligence roBOt (Credits: Arnþór Snær Sævarsson / Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0)

Illustration Photo: Artificial Intelligence roBOt (Credits: Arnþór Snær Sævarsson / Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0)

Crop-spraying drone DJI Agras MG-1 (credit: DJI)

Crop-spraying drone DJI Agras MG-1 (credit: DJI)

Hiro Japanese robot, humanoid robot working alongside people (Credit: Tecnalia/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Serbot AG, an industrial company in Switzerland, has developed a wall and solar panel cleaning robot, GEKKO. (Credit: Serbot AG http://www.serbot.ch/)

Multipurpose Mobile Manipulator Mk 1 (Credit: John Choi, License CC BY-NC-SA 2.5)

Industrial Robots at a car assembly plant (Credit: Norbert Kaiser/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)

Merge Fuzzy Visual Servoing and GPS-Based Planning to Obtain a Proper Navigation Behavior for a Small Crop-Inspection Robot

Poppy : open-source, 3D printed and fully-modular robotic platform for science, art and education

HBS-1: A Modular Child-Size 3D Printed Humanoid

Technavio Announces Top Four Emerging Trends Impacting the Global Assembly-Line Robots Market

Poppy : open-source, 3D printed and fully-modular robotic platform for science, art and education

3D Printed Bionic hand made by Open Bionics in Collaboration with ILM XLabs (Credit: commons.wikimedia.org User:StarWarsRey)

China Robotics to get 5-year push

IDC Forecasts Worldwide Spending on Robotics to Reach $135 Billion in 2019 Driven by Strong Spending Growth in Manufacturing and Healthcare

Back support offering Assist Suit: AWN-03 was developed to provide lower back support. When lifting and holding heavy objects, it reduces stress on the user's lower back by 15kg. (Photo: Business Wire)