There's a "Robot Hall of Fame" at the Carnegie Mellon Institute, and there's a list of new inductees. Some are fictional, some are real, all have had a very strong social impact:
http://www.robothalloffame.org/
An article on how people react to robots -- it's mainly in how you think of them:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14666-robot-builders-seek-a-little-help-from-scifi.html
