Once I read this sentence in the video and saw 5 seconds of it, I instantly knew it to be true:
"Our research hypotheses [are] that robots should not only move to fulfill functional purposes and constraints, but also move 'elegantly', using movements to express its internal states to humans during interaction."
It intantly clicked as an obvious design trait — it's robot body language.
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Once I read this sentence in the video and saw 5 seconds of it, I instantly knew it to be true:
"Our research hypotheses [are] that robots should not only move to fulfill functional purposes and constraints, but also move 'elegantly', using movements to express its internal states to humans during interaction."
It intantly clicked as an obvious design trait — it's robot body language.
The video is very very "Apple robot vs Google|Microsoft robot," in the same contrast as iPhone vs BlackBerry.
Both will complete a task, but one does it in a more natural way. Make computers more human, rather than the other way around.
And I'd totally buy that robot lamp.