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Robot Becomes One of the Kids

Posted by kdawson on from the everybody-say-awwww dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found that toddlers treat a small robot as a peer rather than a toy. A team from the University of California, San Diego, placed Sony's QRIO in a classroom of kids aged 18 months to 2 years and watched them interact. Over time the children grew to treat the robot as one of them — playing games with the robot, hugging it, and covering it up with a blanket when its batteries ran down."

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  1. Obligatory +3, PatRIOTic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    In Soviet "BushCo et al." Amerika, Kids Becomes One Of Robots.

    "An experiment led by Javier Movellan at the University of California San Diego, US, is the first long-term study of interaction between toddlers and robots."

    Slashdot Tip Of The WeeK: Remember, it's just an EXPERIMENT and probably a badly designed one.

    Regards,
    K. Trout

  2. bitcH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why not? It's quick 80s, DARPA saw BSD they're gone Came erosion of user FrreBSD continues OF AMERIcA irc baby...don't fear it has to be fun stand anymore,