Robot Sightings: Robot Opera, Roboware E3 Hybrid, Cylons and Bush, and more…

What's going on today in my crazy robot world?

08:23 Reading through the UK Roaming Robots (tinyurl.com/roaming-robots) newsletter. They had a fantastic 2008 & exciting plans for 2009.
08:28 There must be some roles that robots can do as well as humans. but starring in Phantom of the Opera? tinyurl.com/phantom-robot-opera
08:46 Here's the original TV commercial for the Robot Commando toy from Ideal we posted about earlier (tinyurl.com/robot-commando-video)
09:00 Roboware's E3 robot looks like a positive cross-mutation of RSMedia and the Tribot on steroids tinyurl.com/roboware-robots-for-humans
09:04 Mike Kim, CEO of Roboware, introduces the E3 robot in this EngineeringTV video feature (tinyurl.com/roboware-e3-robot-video)
09:14 Proof positive that 100% software types can learn robotics using systems like Lego Mindstorms tinyurl.com/lego-factory-automation
09:27 Will history really view Battlestar Galactica as a cultural emblem of the George W. Bush era? tinyurl.com/battlestar-cylons-and-bush
10:09 The movie's 'superhero' is more Spiderman than Mazinger-Z, but anyway we'll see K-20 for New Years. (tinyurl.com/japanese-superhero)
10:14 While NASA plans to auction off old space shuttles, India is planning robots on the moon. (tinyurl.com/indian-moon-robot)
12:13 Black robots are great but incredibily difficult to photograph. HDR may be the perfect answer. tinyurl.com/hdr-photography-robot