There is a human sized entertainment robot which can be hired for events, I've met it twice now both times at the Glasgow Show.

It's name is Titan the Robot and the website is http://www.cyberstein.co.uk/

(Just a random YouTube Video, didn't have time to properly select one, there are a lot) 

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What seems far fetched? someone wants to do a robot theme at a club? They actually sell giant fibreglass robosapiens? That Titan is a robot?

If its the last one, your not far wrong. Titan is almost certainly a man in a robot suit, with a variety of animatronics attached. 

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Nocturnal said: That Titan is a robot? If its the last one, your not far wrong. Titan is almost certainly a man in a robot suit, with a variety of animatronics attached. 

 I can certainly atest to that, I met the "robot" behind the scenes while working at the aforementioned Glasgow Show. Impressive piece of kit, most of it is human controlled but the head movements are quite likely electrically operated.

Titan and myself

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R2D2 had a person inside it, too. Most of the shots in the first movie were man-ipulated. 

C3P0 was also a costume.

So was the  Lost In Sapce B-9. 

I know.  It breaks my heart to think they're not real, but.... 

That's what was cool about Short Circuit's Number 5. It was obviously not a costume. You can tell which scenes were the RC version and the puppet version, but it was step forward for movie robots. 

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robo BG said: "No just the idea there is a working full size Robospien. Or did she mean just a model? If that is what she means then I don't think it is far fetched."

I think she means a robosapian costume.

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That Titan suit is very cool.  It brings up a whole slew of questions:

1.  How does the pilot control the voices and what is said?  A joystick, keyboard, touchscreen, etc?  Can the pilot speak certain things manually, and have his/her voice converted (to sound like the robot) on the way out?

2.  How much does it cost to rent out the robot?   

3.  What are the capabilities of the software?  How expandable is it? How does one interact with the programming of the robot behind the scenes?

I could think of a lot more.  I would just like to get our hands on one, and let all of you hackers loose on it (you know who you are.)  Who knows what would happen then? :)

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