Please leave the robot at home!
No, it's not Al Gore. Robot Shows Prime Minister How to Loosen Up:

PRAGUE (Reuters) - A robot with impeccable manners charmed guests at a state dinner with his wisecracks and dancing, outshining Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla and showing up his often-mocked social stiffness.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi unveiled an improved version of the 4-foot-tall Asimo humanoid on an official visit to the Czech Republic, where the word robot first appeared in author Karel Capek's 1920 play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots).

Asimo began working the crowd as soon as he arrived at the dinner late on Thursday, telling jokes, greeting Spidla warmly, and even making a champagne toast before wisecracking that he couldn't drink himself because he is underage.

"Let's drink to Japan and the Czech Republic, and to the friendly relationship between humans and robots," Asimo, made by Honda, said in perfect Czech.

"If Capek could see me, he would definitely be surprised."

Spidla smiled at the robot but seemed at a loss for witty conversation.

It seems to me that talking to robots is like talking to ventriliquists' dummies or puppets - it's OK for kiddie shows, but not something that adults do. I guess I can't muster up the necessary suspension of disbelief.

They should have asked Junichiro to park the robot in the coat room.