A giant bipedal robot that looks like something out of the movie 'Avatar' has been unveiled this month.
The new contest will see teams vying to create a robot that can be 'inhabited' and controlled remotely.
A huge winged reptile from Earth's past is very similar to the flying creatures in the movie 'Avatar'.
Scientists have managed to enable one monkey to control the movements of a second 'avatar' monkey.
Avatar director James Cameron has convinced NASA to install a high resolution 3-D camera on its next Mars rover, Curiosity.
With James Cameron's science fiction epic Avatar hitting cinemas some astronomers have pointed out that a world similar ...