Noticed while putting together the weekly list of New Hampshire patents:
Dean Kamen’s DEKA Research has filed a patent application for a Security Robot that has not of the cutesy roundness of most such robots. It looks like a wingless StarFighter on end placed atop the iBot standing wheelchair. The patent filing doesn’t mention lasers, at least. The filing is here.
The beta version: http://cyberneticzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/robocop1924_02.jpg
THAT is how robots are supposed to look.