A sex-education teacher shows students how to hold a baby, using a robotic infant, at a school in Caldas, Colombia, on May 17, 2019. Schoolchildren in Caldas were taking part in a voluntary program using a baby simulator—a rubber doll with built-in software, programmed to act like a newborn baby, that cries when it wants to be fed, wants to have its diaper changed, or simply needs a cuddle—in a bid to reduce the high level of teenage pregnancies in the town of 78,000. #

A robot named Marty cleans the floors at a Giant grocery store in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on January 15, 2019. Marty roams the aisles of hundreds of grocery stores in the United States, scanning for spills and debris, then alerting human workers to the problems. #

Firefighters are seen with a robot firefighter called Colossus, made by the French company Shark Robotics, outside Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, France, after a major fire, on April 16, 2019. #

Ermin Omerovic, a 19-year-old man living in the town of Jajce, holds a hand with his new bionic hand on October 1, 2019, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Omerovic had a work accident and lost his right arm. After surgery, he is now able to use his brain-controlled prosthetic hand. #

The Mars 2020 rover is seen in the spacecraft-assembly-area clean room during a media tour at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, on December 27, 2019. The Mars 2020 spacecraft—which includes the rover, the descent stage that will deliver the rover to the Martian surface, and the cruise stage—is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2020 and land on Mars on February 18, 2021. #

A robotic priest is photographed at Kodaiji Temple, in Kyoto, Japan, on June 18, 2019. The 400-year-old temple is attempting to boost interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest that it believes might change the face of religion, despite some criticism. #

A farming robot named Tom, produced by the Small Robot Company as part of a field trial to develop new farm technologies, photographed in East Meon, southern England, on November 30, 2018. The agri-tech start-up is developing lightweight autonomous machines that can carry out precision seeding, feeding, and weeding in the hopes of transforming food production. #

The remote-controlled robots OriHime-D, developed by Ory Lab to promote the employment of disabled people, serve customers at a café in Tokyo, Japan, on November 26, 2018. #

The smell-detecting robotic dog Hana-chan performs with a man's foot during a demonstration at the International Robot Exhibition 2019 in Tokyo, Japan, on December 18, 2019. Hana-chan can detect smells with a sensor in its nose and show different reactions depending on the results. #

A robot valet named Stan, by Stanley Robotics, moves a car at Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport, in Colombier-Saugnieu, France, on March 14, 2019. The robot valet can pick up customers' vehicles at a drop-off point and park them in an outdoor car park using artificial intelligence that allows it to optimize space. #

A view of Can't Help Myself, a large-scale art installation featuring a robotic arm, by the Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, ahead of the opening of the 58th International Venice Biennale art exhibition in Venice, Italy, on May 7, 2019. The robot was programmed to use multiple movements in a continuous attempt to sweep a red bloodlike fluid into a contained area, only to have it flow back out again. #

Tara Scranton demonstrates the Sarcos Robotics Guardian XO at the Delta Airlines booth during the CES tech show in Las Vegas on January 8, 2020. The full-body powered exoskeleton is designed to boost the user's strength and endurance. #

A Robotiq gripper attached to an arm made by Universal Robots applies lipstick to a mannequin during the opening of the China International Import Expo, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, on November 5, 2018. #

The robot Bronco (left) clashes with the robot Free Shipping during the BattleBots Challenge at the Amazon re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence, at the Las Vegas Speedway, on June 6, 2019. #

A Beijing Surgerii Technology robot sews up a grape during the World Robot Conference 2019, at the Beijing Etrong International Exhibition and Convention Center, in Beijing, on August 21, 2019. #

Bionic limbs produced by mRobotics are displayed at the Amazon re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence, at the Aria hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 5, 2019. #

A Fedor robot named Skybot F850 is seen before being loaded into a Soyuz capsule to be launched by a new Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the launchpad at Russia’s space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 26, 2019. Skybot F850 spent two weeks being tested aboard the International Space Station. #

The head of Ai-Da, a humanoid robot capable of drawing people from life using her bionic eyes and hand, is seen in the offices of the robotics company Engineered Arts, in Falmouth, England, on February 7, 2019. #

A robot sits at a table during a demonstration of technological innovation at the science and technology commission of the Chamber of Deputies at the Chilean Congress, in Valparaíso, Chile, on October 2, 2019. #