Reaction to Robot Design: Cute, Creepy, and Everything in Between
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Regarding Robot Appearance—Disagreement Among Robot Makers |
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Don’t make them humanlike |
Make them humanlike |
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It’s interesting. When you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. Colin Angle, Founder of iRobot (Wired.com interview with Colin Angle, October 2010) |
In designing human-inspired robotics, we hold our machines to the highest standards we know—humanlike robots being the apex of bio-inspired engineering David Hanson, Founder of Hanson Robotics (Hanson 2011) |
Chapter Overview
A robot’s appearance is critical to people’s interest in interacting with it. In this chapter, we discuss the four general appearances ...
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