Tweenbots: Cute Beats Smart. How do you build a robot that can get from one end of Washington Square Park to the other without your help? Give it a cute smile and a sign explaining where it’s going and rely on strangers to point it in the right direction along the way.
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There is something else at work here besides "cute": novel. I would be willing to bet that if one of these were on every corner, people would start to look at them at expendable annoyances and start stealing, repurposing, abusing and otherwise exploiting them. The novelty is what prevents this, it seems.
Jeffrey - 12th April 2009 19:35 - #
Here's a Youtube of an animated ferret stealing a Tweenbot: http://ferretbunny.com/?p=778
Zoey - 14th April 2009 13:42 - #