http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:03:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/tweenbots/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/tweenbots/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:53:20 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=23760
(blip TV link)
Kacie Kinzer’s Tweenbots experiment is less about robots and more about human nature. She designed small cardboard robots with smiling faces that will move only forward. Kinzer then would set a robot down in an area of New York City with a flag that indicated its destination. The only way it could get “home” was with the help of passers-by. People really came through! Over several months and many missions, each time a robot got stuck or headed in the wrong direction, someone would set it straight or otherwise helped it along its way. My question is: would people have helped a robot that wasn’t so cute? Link -via Gizmodo

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