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I went to this great open house yesterday on campus, "Robot Block Party." Everything from the Nasa robotics team to amateur tinkerers frankensteining robots in their backyards. A couple people from the Exhibits team at the Cal Academy showed a kinect-powered robot they had been tinkering with as a side project, where - their idea - would be to put the robot (with a camera) on the roof, and you'd be able to "drive" it using the kinect inside the museum. And of course, there was the self-driving race car, complete with the ubiquitous Stanford parking sticker.

A robot docent? Curators giving tours of exhibits remotely?

Project looking at robots communicating emotions for Parkinson's patients to preserve relationships with caregivers.

Social robots are simpler to interact with than humans, can repeat games with infinite patience and record the data for further study. Applications with Alzheimer patients too?

Emotional attachment to robots?  As they become integrated into our lives-and our museums-how will we relate to them?  

Increased accessibility through robotics to museums and countless other places is no longer a dream of the future, it's a reality in many large institutions. The challenge now is to translate these advances for use by the masses.

Using robots to open the doors of museums are night...is this a gimmick or the future for all of us?

Robots aren't just for humans any longer-great article!

Can be used for prototyping parts, electronics assembly, biotech lab-on-a-chip experiments, and assembling small mechanical systems in hostile environments -- like museums?  :-)

Telepresence robots make museums accessible to everyone.

Robotic automation emerges as a threat to traditional low-cost outsourcing