Giggling robots are part of the family

by Gene on Nov. 23rd, 2007

Researchers in Sand Diego have found that two-year-olds interact with a special giggling robot as if it were human. The robot does a sophisticated job of responding to its environment, and the children aren’t sophisticated enough to distinguish living from non-living things. (My two-year-old nephew would qualify as a giggling machine, I think.)

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