NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is being built robots, before adding arm, pole, laboratory equipment and other equipment, in August 2008. This six-wheeled robot and a half meters in diameter (20 inches). Frame forward 1.1 meters (3.6 feet) above the ground. MSL rover is being designed and will be tested in 2011.

Japanese Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe sitting with a robot called "My Spoon"when the health robot demonstration in Tokyo on November 10, 2008. "My Spoon", developed by Japans SECOM, designed to help disabled people eat with using a joystick to control with one jaw, hands and feet.

Two All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (Athlete) Rovers across the desert to the Dumont Dunes, CA. Athlete Rovers are designed to surround the Apollo, and "walking" over extremely rough or steep surfaces in the area around the moon for the future.

Biomimetic underwater robot, named "RoboLobster", designed by Professor Joseph Ayers, Aug 17, 2007, in Nahant, Massachusetts. RoboLobster is intended to recognize changes in the ocean and to find and destroy mines below.

Tokyo Fire Department's Rescue Robot carrying mock victims during an anti-terrorism exercise on Radiological Dispersal Device in Tokyo, on November 7, 2008. Tokyo Government to do exercises with eleven organizations including the Metropolitan Police Department.