Robbie has a head, torso, arms, and legs. The robot’s arms use a balloon to conform around an object’s shape and creates a vacuum to pick up the item.

Purdue University scientists now have a $1 million robot system at its Math Sciences Building with the capacity to store up to 1 petabyte of data. The system -- named "Robbie the Robot" for the ...

Customers are happy when they see Robbie the robot and enjoy interacting with it, especially youngsters, he said. When children pet the robot, it smiles, its eyes move and it meows.