Panasonic’s Delivery Robot was tested in a hotel, but will likely find a permanent home in hospitals in the future.

Panasonic’s PorterBot is designed to carry up to 20kg (44lbs), and will autonomously follow you while avoiding obstacles.

Robot Carnival is a collection of animated short films which share the central theme of “robots”. Many famous Japanese directors including Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Steam Boy) worked on it.

Chapit is a household robot that uses speech recognition to control your television and other appliances.

Besttechnology Co. Ltd. has a new humanoid robot kit for sale which uses Robotis Dynamixel servos but can be programmed in C.