Kids in mall. Run, robot, run (for your life)
Friday, August 7, 2015 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
When is human-likeness a good thing and when is it too much of a good thing? Interesting thought: If a child delights in pulling hair off her dolls' heads, disturbing the cat and jabbing her sister to tears, what will she do to the little space robot with eyes carefully designed in some studio to melt hearts or, as advertisers say, "engage?"