ED Corporation’s ARO service robot gets a movie make-over.

Given its name, I probably should have found this one sooner. RoboPal was designed by ATR’s Intelligent Robotics and Communications Lab to study how robots transition from one role to another, such as from a leader to a follower.

Hai Bao is the official mascot of the Shanghai World Expo, and will appear in robotic form throughout the venue.

Robot Force has almost finished building a character robot based on the Tsutenkaku Robo seen attracting visitors to Osaka in tourism commercials.

Passable, but doesn’t even approach the film I imagined given the pairing of Tim Burton and Alice in Wonderland.