Entertainment robot

Expensive robotics are applied to the creation of narrative environments in commercial venues where servo motors, pneumatics, and hydraulic actuators are used to create movement with often preprogrammed responsive behaviors such as in Disneyland's haunted house ride.

Relatively cheap, mass-produced entertainment robots are used as mechanical, sometimes interactive, toys that perform various tasks and tricks on command.

Survival Research Laboratories, in San Francisco, California, creates large destructive robotic performances to roast contemporary culture and express their distaste for the military-industrial complex.

Autopoiesis was one such artificial life work that allowed a series of robots constructed of grapevines to both act as individuals and a group.

Intel Museum hosts the A.I.-driven interactive robot, ARTI, which is short for "artificial intelligence".

The Sony Qrio robot from 2003, marketed under the slogan "Makes life fun, makes you happy!"
An AIBO ERS-111, from 2010