An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim remotely commanded a team of robots on DLR's 'Earthly Mars' site and successfully completed the most challenging experiment in the Surface Avatar series to date.

The research group led by Kouta Minamizawa, Professor at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University is working on the development and social implementation of cybernetic avatar technology, ...

There have been a number of interesting developments happening in the world of robotics lately, including Team NimbRo from the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group at the University of Bonn, Germany, ...