Entertainment robot: Difference between revisions

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While primitive robot toy models only execute standardized pre-programmed routines, sometimes little more than a wind-up toy could do, advancing technology allows for interaction with the user and/or other environmental stimuli (e.g. sensor-detected obstacles), thus somewhat resembling a live playmate, but which has no feelings and will thus always remain inferior to a pet, while more convenient as it may be (ab)used with impunity and has low maintenance.

Nevertheless in the mind of some users the things can hold the loved place of a pet, as demonstrated by the fact that some even sleep with a metallic one (illustrated: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeontheedge/40208094| a Californian Wikipedian]) instead of a plush cuddly toy.

In fact manufacturers even found it pays to produce a toy that is essentially designed to be nurtured, rather like an egg in some 'parenting experience simulations', as proven by the success of the Japanese [[Tamagotchi]].

==Show robot==