While the human-like robots of science fiction have created unrealistic perceptions and expectations of actual robots, Bill Smart, a roboticist at Missouri's Washington University, thinks such misconceptions could nevertheless be helpful in robot design. Smart thinks those raised expectations were down to the impact of unrealistically human-like robots in movies and books. "People don't really know what they are. C-3PO in Star Wars is very humanlike, ... Read full entry
WALL-E is helping to build better robots
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 September, 2008 to the technology subset
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