Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy The Wall Street Journal

 President Barack Obama played soccer with Asimo, a Japanese humanoid robot that chatted with the president in English, jumped up and down, and kicked a soccer ball to him while encouraging the joint effort between the U.S. and Japan to increase student exchanges and investment into math and science programs. (The Wall Street Journal)





A robotic milking system is helping farmers keep track of milking, feeding and recording information about each individual cow on their Illinois dairy farm, which has also increased their profits and efficiency. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)





Australian company Rio Tinto teamed up with Japanese company Komatsu to improve safety standards and productivity on Pilbara mine sites using 30 autonomous trucks. (ABC)





NASA ended a mission by a robotic U.S. spacecraft to map dust and gases around the moon with a planned crash into the lunar surface. (Business Day)