HOW TO GROW A ROBOT

How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and les s programmed.Most robots are not very friendly. They vacuum the rug, mow the lawn, dispose of bombs, even perform surgery-but they a ren't good conversationalists. It's difficult to make eye contact. If the future promises more human-robot collaboration in both wor k and play, wouldn't it be better if the robots were less mechanical and more social? In How to Grow a Robot, Mark Lee explores how robots ca...[Read more]