Last week, the pair was in Europe and performed at London's Festival of the Spoken Nerd, New Castle's Thinking Digital conference and the Amsterdam Comedy Festival, where Data was the only robot on the bill.

Knight is currently conducting her doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and running Marilyn Monrobot Labs in NYC, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art.

“As creative company the numbers that we care about are performances on stage, collaborations with other technologists and artists, and number of people that have started creating themselves because of our influence,” said Ms. Knight. “Less tangible goals are an exploration of ideas and impacts around technology, everyday Robotics and charismatic machines."

Ms. Knight is currently preparing getting ready for the first ever Robot Film Festival, which will take place on July 16. So far, the festival has received 35 submissions and will headline with a Spike Jonze robotic love story.

Ms. Knight hopes that the film festival promotes an understanding of robot-human relations and helps counter negative stereotypes about bots.

Ms. Knight is also looking forward to seeing more robots on stage.