Longing for a robot but don’t have the green? Build yourself this $30 Android that can talk, as well as open and close applications, and who knows what else. Check the video.

It may not look like the cutting-edge robots we have been seeing, but this Swami can recognize people’s faces (there are cameras in the eyes) and can also carry on conversations. Reminiscent of the fortune-telling machines, this $75,000 model is equipped with 30 motors in the facial region, so its expressions can unnerve the unsuspecting guest – or you if you forgot you have a “human” head in your house!