Posted by If you are one of those people that believes that robots will one day take over the human race, you may not be far off. Already software takes away a lot of our work, whether it’s bid management software or flight booking online, but it’s the hardware where things really get fun. While we go about our daily lives, inventors from all around the world are working tirelessly in their secret laboratories, creating robots to do everything a human can do and more. Still in their more primitive stages, these robots are admittedly pretty adorable and fun to watch. Let’s just hope they don’t get too smart on us…
1. Dancing Sony Robots
Humans do the robot so robots are doing the human. And very industriously at that.
2. Robot Girlfriend
Le Trung, an inventor from Ontario, Canada, spent two years building his fembot named “Aiko”. Le built the attractive robot in order to help with household chores. He claims that he has never had sex with his robot but that her software can be “tweaked” to simulate her having an orgasm. Le hopes to one day sell robots like Aiko to help with house work for the elderly.
3. Bicycle Robot
Newspaper boy of the future! 
4. Toyota Robot That Plays the Violin
You can stay in and order food, rent some movies, but in the near-future you can also have a robot perform a private violin concert in the comforts of your own home.
5. Soccer Robots
They go after the ball, they fall, they kick, pass, score and try to keep the ball from going out of bounds. These robots are autonomous, and are equipped with internal camera systems and sensor scans that process information in real time.
6. iCub
Developed to aid in the study of cognition, the iCub is one of the world’s most life-like robots- modeled after a 3.5 year old child who can learn through basic object recognition, can move its eyes, head, legs, hands and arms in a freakishly realistic way and even play the drums. One of the most interesting and unique things about the iCub is that it is an open open-systems platform. “Users and developers in all disciplines, from psychology, through to cognitive neuroscience, to developmental robotics, can use it and customize it freely”, says Professor John Gray, professor in the Control Systems Centre at the University of Manchester, in a TechRadar.com interview. “The hope is that the iCub will develop its cognitive capabilities in the same way as a child, progressively learning about its own bodily skills, how to interact with the world and eventually how to communicate with other individuals.” 
7. Rubot: The Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot
Invented by Artificial Intelligence student Peter Edmond, Rubot is the fastest robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube- Rubot can solve the Rubik’s cube in approximately 35 seconds. 
8. Fighting Robots
They may look all cute and fun for now, but imagine what could happen when they become life-size and we lose the remote controls…
9. Asimo The Robot
Made by Honda, Asimo can walk up stairs, run faster than any other robot, and serve you coffee!
10. Domo: The Cleaning Help Robot
Though still a work in progress, Domo is a robot that strives to be much like the Jetson’s robot-maid Rosie, in a not-so-distant future. Domo’s creator, MIT engineer, Aaron Edsinger envisions a robot like Domo to eventually help the elderly or wheelchair-bound people, with household tasks like putting away dishes. 
