If you cant wait for PaPeRo to hit the shelves – make one. Get yourself Growing up with Lucy – How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps by Steve Grand. It comes with rave reviews.

“Lucy Matilda is a robot baby orangutan, conceived during May 2000 by Cyberlife Research. When completed, Lucy will have a radically new kind of artificial brain. She will not be as smart as a human or ape baby of the same age, but she will learn for herself and she will have something that no robot has ever had before – an imagination.” ~ AgentLand.com