Next month, robot experts from around US and the world will come together in California to compete for a $2m prize in the final of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Fire departments around the world may soon be out shopping for thumping subwoofers thanks to a new fire extinguisher invented by George Mason University undergrads, which uses nothing but low frequency bass to extinguish flames.
It will likely be sometime before you see autonomous cars, even though autonomous vehicles are already successfully utilised in open cast mines, nuclear power stations, underwater and in other relatively inaccessible places.
