A “Nao” humanoid robot by Aldebaran Robotics sits in a corner while its batteries are being charged during a presentation at a branch of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) in Tokyo April 13, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A visitor plays a game on a PlayStation VR at the Paris Games Week, a trade fair for video games in Paris, France, October 28, 2015. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





The Solar Impulse 2 is seen taking off at the Mandalay international airport March 30, 2015. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Servers for data storage are seen at Advania's Thor Data Center in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland August 7, 2015. (Photo by Sigtryggur Ari/Reuters)





Lucy Kelly is seen on a screen attached to a “telepresence robot”, which she used to purchase her iPhone 6s during the official launch at the Apple store in central Sydney, Australia, September 25, 2015. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





Mother-to-be Maarja Lants looks at a three-dimensional (3D) print model of her unborn baby in Tallinn January 28, 2015. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)





The unmanned SpaceX Crew Dragon lifts off from launch pad 40 during a Pad Abort Test at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 6, 2015. (Photo by Scott Audette/Reuters)





Inigo Munoz Elorza of Spain and Stefan Dobrovolny of Austria (R) take stone samples during a simulated Mars mission on Tyrolean glaciers in Kaunertal, Austria, August 7, 2015. (Photo by Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)





A prototype of Google's own self-driving vehicle is seen during a media preview of Google's current autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters)





A humanoid robot named Han developed by Hanson Robotics reacts as the controller commands it via a mobile phone to make a facial expression during the Global Sources spring electronics show in Hong Kong April 18, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone snorts cocoa powder off his Chocolate Shooter in his factory in Bruges, February 3, 2015. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)





French engineer and professional violinist Laurent Bernadac plays the “3Dvarius”, a 3D printed violin made of transparent resin, during an interview with Reuters in Paris, France, September 11, 2015. (Photo by Christian Hartmann/Reuters)





A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, January 20, 2015. (Photo by Michael Brown/Reuters)





A man shakes hands with a robotic prosthetic hand in the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2015. (Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters)





An airplane flies over a drone during the Polar Bear Plunge on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York January 1, 2015. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)





A tower of Abengoa solar plant at “Solucar” solar park is pictured in Sanlucar la Mayor, near Seville, southern Spain November 13, 2015. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)





A robot in the Robotic Kitchen prototype created by Moley Robotics cooks a crab soup at the company's booth at the world's largest industrial technology fair, the Hannover Messe, in Hanover, Germany April 13, 2015. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)





Jan Stumpf of Ascending Technologies controls an Intel AscTec Firefly drone during a flight demonstration at the House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington November 19, 2015. (Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)





Drones fly in synchronization above attending conference-goers as they dine outside along the ocean during the opening remarks at the beginning of the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 19, 2015. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)





Artist Neil Harbisson, who has an antenna permanently attached to his skull, speaks during the Riga Comm 2014 innovation conference in Riga, Latvia November 14, 2014. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)





Brianna Lempesis, from San Diego, appears on a video screen on her “Beam” robot, while waiting in line to purchase an iPhone 6S at the Apple store in Palo Alto, California September 25, 2015. Lempesis made the purchase via the screen and the phone was attached to a hook on the robot. (Photo by Robert Galbraith/Reuters)





A 500-metre (1,640-ft.) aperture spherical telescope is seen under construction among the mountains in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, China, November 26, 2015. The telescope, which will be the largest in the world, will be put in use by September 2016, according to local media. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A Honda Motor employee demonstrates the company's new Walking Assist Device, which helps those with weakened leg muscles but who are still able to walk, during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan July 21, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A humanoid robot named “Yangyang” shows a facial expression during its demonstration at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, China, April 29, 2015. The android was produced jointly by China's Shanghai Yangyang Intelligent Robot Science Service center and Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, with the aim of popularizing robotics among the young. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson interacts with Pepper, a social humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran for SoftBank, during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York, September 28, 2015. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)





A student (L) and an instructor look at a computer as they demonstrate using a headset to control robots with her mind, at the People's Liberation Army Information Engineering University, in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, August 7, 2015. The robots can be controlled through the headset to go different directions, turn their heads and pick up objects, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Jacob and Ester Fu jump in the Nikon 360 Degree Project during the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2015. The project uses images taken from 48 Nikon D750 cameras to create 360-degree frozen moments and slow motion captures in 5K resolution. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Reuters)





The Jet Propulsion Lab team's RoboSimian robot turns on a valve at a simulated disaster-response course during day one of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge finals in Pomona, California, June 5, 2015. (Photo by David McNew/Reuters)