Robots have an more and more important role in our life. Their presence indicates the arrival the new era of human technology development.
Robots that have been developed can be divided into mainly two categories, ones that assist us and ones that entertains us.
The robots that entertains us has only been developed in the recent years, including the Japanese robot dog. I used to have one of them when I was young, and I have to admit, I preferred a real dog as a kid. The robotic dogs today have much more interaction features than robotics dogs at the time when I was a kid. I have to admit that I thought they were boring. Because for a kid, what makes a toy interesting is interaction with it.
For robots that are designed to assist us in production and daily life, there is always a myth that will they have their free mind sometime and develop their own mind and surpass us and took the domination of the earth someday? And that has been illustrated in many movies. I believe that when we design robots to assist us, we shall specify their roles, give each kind of robots minimum variety in their duties to limit the possibility of their developing their own free mind. And give them the Turin test every month!