Maker: OOZ and OZ
By Dale DoughertyPhotography by Emily Nathan
“We take in abandoned robotic dogs,” says Natalie Jeremijenko.
She gets a warm laugh from a roomful of geeks at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) in San Diego this past March. Most people tire of their robotic dogs and end up selling them on eBay. “We need to rethink toys,” she adds. “Most of them are not truly engaging and have a very limited ability to teach us anything about the world we live in.” Her idea is to “release” these domestic robots into the wild where, in the case of the Feral Robotics Project, hacked toy-dog robots can interact with each other and with ...
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