He was a big hit at adult parties, but we finally had to abandon using him because it was so hard to keep him functioning due to all the abuse he suffered at the hands of mature, reasonable, law-abiding citizens. If you look unusual, it is better to be male than female. We added long eyelashes, red lips, and hair ribbons. They shook his hand, talked to him and kissed him. Until robots can be made to look really good, they are better off being male.
People love to see more complexity then really exists.
Out show-bots were all radio controlled and were really nothing more then electronic puppets. However, people were always assuming that they were more complicated then they really were. The more educated the audience, the easier they were to fool . At electronics conventions, engineers would often ask the robot what type of microprocessor it had or what speech recognition algorithm it was using. The robots had lights on their chests that blinked randomly.