L3-37, the so-called mutt of a robot in Solo: A Stars Wars Movie, may lead the way to more efficient, economical, and robust systems.

Here is a link to the article... http://robotics.sciencemag.org

What it gets right about robots: Direction perception as the foundation for intelligent behavior. 

Recommendation: Read this lesser known book of how an alien generation ship could be plausibly controlled using the same biological robot paradigm as a Roomba.

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Robots:  humanoids, squarish service bots, those floating creepy military droids   

What it gets right about robotics:  not much beyond establishing that a robot can have a female voice and not be a sexbot.   

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What R2D2 and BB-8, the lovable astromechs from the Star Wars movies, can tell us about real robots.

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Guest article on NASA Johnson Space Center's Robonaut http://robotics.sciencemag.org/content

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