Robot of the Week: the Friendliest Little Autonomous Explorer

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 09:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Your mother told you never to speak to strangers, but what if the stranger was a robot on wheels, who was lost and needed your help? Thirty-eight people in this very predicament chose to speak to the waylaid robot, whose task was to cross a busy city without a map or GPS. All it could do was ask directions. read more

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