Belvedere is a do-it-yourself butler robot. Based on the iRobot Create platform, Belvedere can move around avoiding obstacles (like small children), tell jokes and even dance.
(Belvedere the robot butler)
Science fiction fans have long been aware of the butler robot, like the one in The Midas Plague, the 1954 short story by Frederik Pohl.
There was the butler robot, hard at work, his copper face expressionless...
(Read more about Pohl's butler robot)
RoboShiko! Sumo Exercises Still Good For Robots
'... the expressionless face before me was therefore that of the golem-wrestler, Rolem, a creature that could be set for five times the strength of a human being.' - Roger Zelazny, 1966.
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'... the expressionless face before me was therefore that of the golem-wrestler, Rolem, a creature that could be set for five times the strength of a human being.'