In Pictures: Attack of the (mostly) cool robots

New robots pick grapes, go after snakes, improve health and measure Antarctic ice

Researchers showed off the latest incarnation of the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL), a full body suit that could eventually be used by workers dismantling the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. HAL — the name of the evil supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"— has a network of sensors that monitor the electric signals coming from the wearer's brain.

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