A team of researchers from the IstitutoItalianodiTecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) and University of Pisa in Italy has developed a robot that can operate human tolls and can even interact with environment around it alike humans.

The team hopes that their Walk-Man robot will prove to be a more effective design in areas of search and rescue which could be otherwise dangerous for humans.

The lead researcher, Nikos Tsagarakis, said not much efforts will be needed to accommodate Walk-Man as it could operate in damaged buildings. That one factor that everyone agrees is that our world is designed for our body. Therefore, we have tools that are designed to be used by humans.

Further explaining the working of their robot, he said in order to navigate through tricky environments Walk-Man uses all its limbs to demonstrate whole-body motion dynamics.

By making use of its hands, arms, legs and feet, Walk-Man continues to make a more stable and balanced motion by reaching out to support itself while overcoming obstacles.

Tsagarakis said in a statement that by making this robot their aim is to make the Walk-Man robot demonstrate human type locomotion, balance and manipulation capabilities.

"We believe that - as humans also do - that legs are not only enough. You have to use also the arms, you have to be able to grasp the environment and actually assist your locomotion by creating additional contacts with the environmental balance", he said