Unfortunately, the first thing that I (and several other people, all people in my target market, with no prompting from me) see when I look at these one eyed robots is a snail! I love the idea, I just am not sure it hit the mark... and interest in tweaking it to see what else you might come up with? I'm sorry I don't have anything specific to tell you about what direction to go...
I do know that I do not like the web 2.0 look with the shiney glossy sparkly stuff...
Thank you for all of your hard work so far!