Sony's Robot Attends Pre-School

Darren writes "Sony's Qrio humanoid robot has been attending a Californian pre school to play with children under the age of 2 since March to test if robots can live harmoniously with humans. I wonder if the testing includes monitoring the 'nightmare status' of the pre-schoolers?"

Comments

Re:No, no, no

[HyperChicken]

It's an open source, so naturally it chooses not to follow the law.

Re:Clowns and wax figures

[danila]

I always envied people who can tell a blatant lie with a straight face, Mr Guy.

You make an outrageous claim about the brain, supporting it with false evidence about people being afraid of clowns and wax figures. Where is the evidence, do you have a reference handy showing that X% of the college students are afraid of clowns or something like this? Are you personally afraid of clowns? Do you cower and cry when you see one?

Next you make an absolutely unwarranted conclusion that since "many people are afraid of clowns and wax figures" (the statement of questionably validity to begin with), then certainly children must be scared by a Qrio robot. Of course, how could I not know it? It's the brain flagging function that is responsible for it. Thanks for telling us. BTW, do you have a handy reference (a scientific journal or a textbook) about this flagging?

Thanks for spreading pseudoscience here. And thanks the clueless mod who modded this particular clown up.