Robotic breakthroughs Robotic breakthroughs From robots that detect radiation to bots that recover missing bodies, scientists around the world are pushing the technology behind robotics to amazing heights. See our list of incredible breakthroughs. Robots find missing bodies A team of underwater robots (or AUV) played a critical role recently in locating wreckage and missing bodies from an air disaster that occurred almost two years ago in the Atlantic Ocean. Bodies and debris were found off the coast of a South American country. Radiation-detecting robots Germany and the United States have plans to send radiation-hardened robots to Japan in hopes of controlling potential radiation leaks from the country's nuclear power plants that were damaged in the recent devastating earthquake and tsunami. Human-like robots It's so real, it's scary. From a scolding teacher robot to an incredibly realistic man-bot (who is it built to look like?), scientists are creating mechanical devices...