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If you've waiting for a world with more robots -- be careful what you wish for.

"QA is a telepresence robot, so it's driven by someone on his laptop," explains Trevor Blackwell of Anybots. "So the boss is sitting in his condo in Hawaii having a nice time, and the robot's sitting in the office so he can drive it up and down the cubicles and interact with people in a much more organic way than can be done with a video conference."

If the idea of a robot boss following you around absolutely horrifies you, how about the idea of a robot that will follow you around with a cocktail? The technology of the OLogic robot allows it to move smoothly on two wheels.

"It kind of behaves like a hockey puck on slick ice," says Ted Larson of OLogic. "So you can just give it a shove and it'll go where you want it to go, but we could also make it more autonomous so it could conceivably navigate around your home."

Taking those features a bit further are the developers of the Mech RC humanoid robots. The robots are programmable, so you decide how they move – and groove.

"What we've done is created the programming involved, like kind of an animation pack," says Jim Wyatt of Mech RC. "The user sets keyframe one, keyframe two, then you set a time between those frames and the robot will move between them. Once you've gotten into it, you can start modifying them. We've had people customizing them, putting hooks on the hands so they can grab hold of stuff."

Maybe it would be most ideal if you could use all three at once.