Editing Entertainment robot (section)

==Commercial show robots==
For machines for the entertainment industry, cost is not the driving factor in design choices, and so the robots are often at a price point outside of what a private person would choose to pay 

These robots are made for use as:
*shop-front  - created by a manufacturer to show what they are technologically capable of and so promote their other products.
*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 droids R2-D2 and C-3PO in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' double trilogy (1977-2005) which have proved rather popular from the start.
*promotions - Used at trade shows where they move about a trade show floor providing tongue-in-cheek interaction with trade show attendees to bring said attendees to a particular company's trade show booth. 
*exhibit - Robots such as [[Engineered Arts|Robothespian]] are used at venues such as science museums to explain concepts or just be an interactive exhibit in their own right