The robot that Hideyuki Takei and Reo Matsumura have designed may not be capable of much movement as of yet, but the phone-to-robot interaction via bluetooth is no less a feat of design.

An android robot, EveR 6, took the conductor’s podium in Seoul on Friday evening to lead a performance by South Korea’s national orchestra.

Researchers programmed Pepper the robot to "think" out loud so that it could better interact with humans.