Pink Tentacle brings you this year's robot of the year for 2007 - Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced the winners of the 2007 Robot Award. The top honor of “Robot of the Year” goes to Fanuc’s super-fast two-armed industrial robot system equipped with visual tracking functions, which is optimized for work on food and pharmaceutical manufacturing lines.
Japan's ministry of economy - robot of the year 2006 - Link.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/japans_ministry_of_econom_1.html