Eclectic Views

    
Here's a couple of especially fine links from http://boingboing.net/ ...

a somewhat arbitrary rating of the top fifty movie robots
<http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2133609.ece>

an overview of robotics research at M.I.T.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/magazine/29robots-t.html>
  

    
Video clip of robot which has been programmed to imitate a traditional
Japanese dance, as part of a cultural preservation effort...

<http://staff.aist.go.jp/s.nakaoka/movies/BandaisanHRP-2.mpg>

Almost a sexbot (not what *I* mean by a service robot)...

<http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/oooooh/honey-doll-has-touch-sensors-moans-has-fake-orgasms-288234.php>
  

    <scribbled by satyr Sat 1 Sep 07 15:49>
  

    
Here's an interesting exercise...

Enter "green robotics" (with the quotes) into the search field in Google.

Here's the resulting link, for your convenience...

<http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22green+robotics%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>

If you're hoping to find page after page of links to the usage of that phrase
in the context of robotic technology potentially being green technology,
you'll be disappointed.  That point hasn't yet achieved much penetration of
the collective consciousness.

The upside is that the potential of "green robotics" is both huge and 
largely unrecognized, which spells opportunity.