Shiny Doom Forum

[Trool]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/02/02/social.robots.ap/

we r now one step closer to making bots look like people, but the question is do we want to...? I personaly don't think we do as long as we want bot to be tools only...what u guys think?
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[Jastermereel]

More on David Hanson
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,473054,00.html
and more on the Uncanny Valley
http://www.wordspy.com/words/uncannyvalley.asp

[rklee]

I agree with Max. I see no reason for it to resemble humans. Plus I have a fear of things that look human but isn't anyways . For all practical purposes for a robot... being able to smile is useless... in my opinion. I think it's cool and could create advances in perhaps motor designs or stuff like that however I don't think it in itself is very useful.
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[Corgren]

Human-type features make exactly as much sense on a robot as they do in computer software (I mean things like "Clippy" here). While techie types won't like them (already quite happy to interact on the machine's level), the general public will respond far better with a "personality" that they can relate to, no matter how false the personality may seem.
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[fate]

if clippy was a robot clippy would be severely mangled now....people can relate to them sure but what if they forget for a moment that its a machine and not a person, they may end up braking it...or their hands/feet in furious rage and frustriation
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[Trool]

also humanoid bots that behave human is one thing...i guess u can use ur clippy example, he is ment to look cartoony and therefore ppl r fine with him, he isn't even approching the uncanny valley, but on the other hand there hasn't been any software...or at least not much that tried to make u believe it was human, even games like creatures and sims have things that can only be realy caracatures of human. To me there is no problem making machine inteligent and responding to ppl on their level with their language, I just don't see a useful point in also making them look human, I think if you try to do that there would be a huge lash back from the public, maybe in a long time from now when bots have become house hold products it might make sense, but i don't think that will be any time soon.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov