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What Sex is Your Robot?

Posted by michael on from the battery-powered dept.

Ant writes "Technology Review has an article about how the more robots interact with humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes."

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  1. I want my robot to be... robotic by pubjames · · Score: 4, Insightful


    I want my robot to be... robotic

    Seriously. I can't be the only one that finds it really annoying when my Windows XP machine modifies the way it behaves because it is guessing what I want to do. It's damn irritating. Or when it suggests I might want to clean icons off my desktop, or whatever.

    I do not want my robot to start cleaning things I haven't told it to clean. Or comment on the fact that it's a nice day. Or try to be funny or cute. Just do as I say. You're a frickin' machine.