If you prefer robot bartenders to lack limbs that could be used against you in the impending robopocalypse, Bartendro might be your kind of bot.
If this fantastic simulacra isn?t enough for you, Robot Gunslinger also has ultrasonic hearing and magnified, infrared vision ? demonstrated by the first ever use of computer generated imagery in a film ?
If you have a robot that needs a makeover, just open the door, Studio9732 will be waiting.
I.e. the dual-cameras on the HOM-BOT can show you where the robot is, and mapping presents a display of its path through the house.
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It can be a person, an animal or even a robot that you use to lead your story.
The portfolio can include videos of a robot that you have built or a marketing proposal that you created.
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Finally, you can set the robot to wander around a building randomly.
So maybe one day soon, having a household robot bring you dinner as you're watching a 3D film on your connected-TV will become as commonplace as having a mobile phone.
It may also be the only machine that keeps you alive when the Robot Apocalypse goes down, but we'll try to stuff that to the rear of our minds for now.
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Ironically, when you consider that the Magimix by Robot-Coupe is still made by hand, and intended to last you 30 years, it seems old fashioned.
But the design is smart, it pulses while animating the display, making you feel like the machine is an intelligent robot butler, making the soda perfect just for you.
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You realize how smart dogs are when you try to get a robot to do it.
And I have to say, it is fascinating stuff, when you watch -- the robot is about this big.
If you feed one of these robot towers new cubes, it will make a copy of itself in just a couple of minutes.
It is only when words on the walls start appearing, admonishing the player or offering backhanded encouragement after yet another violent explosion into giblets at the hands of a laser-equipped turret or murderous robot, that you realise the bastard is the game.
We had a go on "Colors": under a time limit, you have to run the robot over the necessary RFID discs as instructed by the controller's LEDs, and then get to the hexagonal plate -- the "SFX Hub" -- to "deposit" the flags.
And that look always seems to get dated, whether it's danger, Will Robinson, you know, like the funny-looking robot in "Lost in Space" or whether it's, you know, Buck Rogers of the '70s.
The underwater robot removes the debris you can see and the hidden stuff you cannot.
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The robot, brought to you by TOSY Robotic, is also a portable MP3 player with 2GB of internal storage.
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And when you're all done, you've created a programmable robot that can follow trails, avoid obstacles and react to changes in light.
Then you upload the program to the robot and see what happens.
That little argument about unicorns and memory could leave you with the impression that a robot's inner monologue is pretty bizarre and vapid.
Natrium 42's homebrew kit is an open robot platform that lets you control your RoboDS (pictured right) with an NDS WiFi connection through a web browser interface.
Using so-called reality instant messaging, a software "robot" monitors what you and your friends are doing--watching the same TV shows on different sets, say, or downloading the same song from Eminem--and links all of you via cell phone.
You can also click a spot in a map of the robot's location, and it will drive to the place you indicate.
Picture the following: You're reclining on a lawn chair, relaxed, while one robot mows your lawn, another cleans your pool and a third fetches you a beer.
If you can't wait that long--and are willing to invest some time and programming energy--you can try building your own luxury robot.
When you can take apart some wily enemy robot with a few well-placed slashes in a ridiculously macabre version of Fruit Ninja.
"Robots should be smaller, it should be helpful, it should be subordinate, it should be making sure that you are the master and not the robot, " said Mr. Haass.
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