Creepy or cute? Robot creature to study touch

[Potoooooooo]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/29/robot.creature/index.html
Steve Yohanan, 40, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, has come up with a prototype for a robotic creature he'll use to figure out how humans use touch to communicate. The furry robot looks somewhat like a rabbit with no eyes, nose or mouth. Yohanan left off facial features because he wanted to exclusively study how people respond to the creature through touch.

[Apostate1970]

However you feel about it, this is the future, so you better get used to it or go talk to the Mennonites.

[Marduk]

ugh, Robots have become tiresome already and its only 2008

[GenesisNemesis]

Soon, they'll become just like us- bored and out of their minds.

[Marduk]

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/06/59249

watch for it, soon people will want to marry them

[Apostate1970]

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/06/59249

watch for it, soon people will want to marry them

my sister has a roomba. i think my mom has one too.

hmmm... :rolleyes:

i am single... :grin: