Commercial Show Robots
As usual in the entertainment industry, capital and creativity are invested to try and top anything the private person can afford. In fact, from their owner's point of view this is a professional use, but the product is designed with as end use in mind its appreciation by the public.
Thus expensive robots are made for use as:
- marketing tool - logically showed off by the manufacturers, to promote their products and technology, occasionally used in other promotional productions
- prop - inanimate performer or even artificial actor in show, TV and movie production (as the fictitious first toy robots, see above); as technology advances, some advanced robots can, often helped with other special effects, to make them seem what cannot (yet), even be significantly more than a cast extra, such as the Starwars 'droids' R2-D2 and C-3P0 in the Star Wars double trilogy (1977-2005) which have proved rather popular from the start.
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