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I'll post some of the state of the art robotics stuff here. Two major companies are working on two different aspects: Human interaction- voice/face/speech recognition, and human movement (harder than it sounds.)

This is a military robot...

Also military...

Not military (This is the human interaction company)

And the best at human motion...

My first reaction to the singing robot was "what's the point?", my second was to wonder how much was just replaying a recording of the input.

Assuming that it is not replaying a recording then the degree of facial expression is probably the greatest advance towards human acceptance out of all of the videos.

Asimo is way ahead of the field in movement (even though it still crouches to allow it to walk) but to be accepted and to communicate effectively a humanoid robot must use the non-verbal channels and this is the first real step down that road.