You took the words right out of my mouth. It seems like every other e-mail from Gecko last year was interest from overseas countries like India, China, Japan, etc....
I have not seen any PR's to that regard this year. I e-mailed Martin on this subject, but have not received a reply as of yet.... He says the Japanese want to develope these robots themselves and they have a "too hardware frame of mind instead of software"....which is essential in a robot....