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April 4, 2008
Nexi Wants To Be Liked
Those crazy kids at MIT labs are at it again. This time their collaborative efforts have netted a new robot called Nexi. It has a Segway-like body with articulated limbs and a face that can convey a simple range of emotions. Those MIT lab rats are studying how social relationships develop so Nexi's main task is to observe and interact. It just wants to be liked by you.
It's interesting how the Japanese and Koreans often design their bots to be animal or child-like with very anthropomorphic characteristics while western robotics tend to favor human likeness.
Hit the jump to see Nexi.
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Comments
I love all that stuff. You are right, we design more human like robots. I wonder why that is? Could it be that they think of this as more of a fantasy thing but we yearn to make a human like friend? In an odd way it reminds me of those old men who pay thousands of dollars to have a human like doll live with them.
Posted by: Yoli at April 8, 2008 10:08 AM