During the summer of
2001,
the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT,formerly TCT) aired a new commercial to promote its "AmazingThailand" year. As the commercial opened, a robot sat with itsback to a tree in a vaguely tropical setting. Its chrome head noddeda bit, as if it was napping. An icon at the lower edge of the screenidentified the location of the forest as "Amazing Thailand." Cut tothe robot in a market, the robot dancing in a nightclub, the robotat a Buddhist temple. Its movements are — as expected for a robot