Robots - toys or learning tool?

A friend of mine sent me a link to an article on the new Robosapiens. Well it looks like a great little toy but what else? My friend also sent me a link to a course at Northeaster University that uses this same type of robot as part of a networking course.

More and more I think we are going to see robots in our classrooms. They are a lot more interesting that a lot of other things in class. Plus of course they have the potential to change the way we live our lives. I know that my Roomba has already changed the way I think about keeping the house clean.

I'm not sure where robots are going to go in the future but I think it will be useful if we teach students using and about them now so that they can better create the future.