By: Why should my robot look like me? – NewsChest Technology

[…] If we want robots to do things that we as humans can’t, then shouldn’t robots look and function differently from us? Recently, Google introduced its home-assistant robot’s capability to book an appointment. The conversation involved very human awkward pauses and deliberation. It was designed for us not to detect the machine in it. Fascinating as that is, for many, there is an undeniable sense of foreboding as well. Robotics experts, such as University of Edinburgh’s Robert Fisher, is […] Why should my robot look like me? […]