Andbot Robot: Smart Home Robot

Andbot is a personal robot with sensors to serve as your personal assistant. It comes with full-range hand and arm motions and person recognition. The robot has sensors to catch smoke, gas, and fire accidents. It integrates with your smart home to control lighting, TV, and other devices.

Moorebot Robot: Smart Home Robot

Moorebot Robot is itself a rip-off of the design of Jibo, an early "social robot for the home" that boasted an abstract single-eyeball that bounces, changes color, and scrunches itself up in a variety of ways to convey Pixar-like emotions. And even those robots that don't have just a single 'ball (I ran out of synonyms for "eyeball" pretty quickly) tend to focus on animated eyes as the central way of interacting with the robot.

Eel Robot: Smart Modular Robot

This swimming eel-robot does not make me happy. Watching its long, black, mechanical body move underwater, its red eyes glowing, makes my nerves twitch. The discomfort is primal. I have every sense that it's a predator, snaking its way through murky depths to ensnare, suffocate, and digest me. My id fails to register that this is just a robot, designed to perform inspections and do simple maintenance on undersea equipment.

Keecker Robot: Smart Home Robot

Keecker is a strangely named Android-based projector robot that can follow you around the house for entertainment purposes – although don’t expect it to be cheap. The device, shown around at CES 2014, is a project lead by Pierre Lebeau, a former product manager at Google. Keecker looks pretty much like a ball, or maybe like one of those smart vacuum robots that can clean the house while you’re away, although this one has other powers.

Antbo Robot: An Insect Robot

Antbo takes only an hour to build but can last forever in your heart. The insect robot — which anyone with an "inquisitive mind" can put together — can follow a coded route, "play golf" on that path, and show emotion by trembling when it "feels threatened" or glancing around when it feels "inquisitive." It's the perfect pet for kids with allergies!

MiP Robot: Self Balancing Robot

MiP is a robot with emotions and it wants to play with you. At least, that's what WowWee is trying to convince you of with the toy's many audio responses and interactive games. MiP (short for Mobile Inverted Pendulum) actively interacts with you while rolling around on its two rubber wheels. This lovable robotic buddy will move around, spin-dance to music, and express its own emotions with shouts and groans.

BeatBot Robot: Tiny Racing Robot

The device was created by Puma's advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson New York, with some help from a NASA robotics engineer and a group of MIT students. Looking not unlike a miniature Zamboni, it's equipped with nine downward-facing infrared sensors that can track straight or curved lines on the ground.

Shimon Robot: Musician Four-Armed Robot

Shimon, the robotic marimba player, can listen to, understand, collaborate with, and surprise his human counterparts. Along with a few other robotic musicians and musical cyborgs developed by Georgia Tech’s Robotic Musicianship group, Shimon uses artificial intelligence and creativity algorithms to push musical experiences and outcomes to uncharted domains.

Blossom Robot: Family-Friendly robot

Blossom is supposed to be a family-friendly robot. Its soft, knitted outside and wooden ears are supposed to make kids feel comfortable. Blossom is synonymous with flowers, which are beautiful, but I don't think Blossom is beautiful.

Qoobo Robot: Headless Robotic Cat

Qoobo Robot a soft, round cushion with a robotic tail that reacts to strokes, just as a loving pet would. “Tails: a communication tool that doesn’t require words,” the demo video begins. It goes on to show everyone who might find peace with the “cushion-tailed therapy robot”: young people living alone in immaculate apartments, children, the elderly. The process to healing is easy: just give it a good pat and watch the cushion’s tail wag softly in response. It’ll also wag and curl the tail on its own, via an accelerometer in the pillow.