| In 2005 the robotics industry pushed forward into the | | | | in the future. |
| future with huge strides as we saw the first fully | | | | In the future we will see so many new ideas, |
| autonomous car drive 210 miles through the desert in | | | | innovations and designs for robotic devices. One |
| the DARPA Grand Challenge. We also saw iRobot | | | | device concept we will see is Spherical Bouncing |
| zoom ahead as its stock soared in Wall Street with its | | | | Robots, which use a combination of internal motion |
| IPO. | | | | parts and haptics to allow them to bounce or roll along |
| The Tokyo Robotics show impressed the world over | | | | without any external parts which might be subject to |
| with android type robots, which could do nearly any | | | | getting caught on things or corroding in the sulfuric |
| task at home and walk upright, just like you and I. And | | | | chemicals on the surface of a planet. There are many |
| we watched NASA's Mars Rover exceed | | | | advantages to spherical robotics over some of the |
| expectations and warranties on another planet. Wow, | | | | present designs and believe it or not they can even be |
| surely this was the greatest year in World Robotics | | | | designed to sit on an incline without rolling down the hill. |
| History, but many researchers and industry analysts | | | | Think on this in 2006. |
| say this is merely a foreshadowing of things to come | | | | |