| Title:
| Have you hugged a robot today?
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| Description:
| "Mechanical creatures that respond to humans are cute, but are also a step on the way to improving our relationship with machines. ... to [Steve] Bannerman, a former Apple staffer who set up Quicktime TV (which became the iTunes Store), Pleo, as the dinosaur is called, might just be the future of human-machine interaction. Pleo, made by a company called Ugobe, coos and even sings. Rub its neck and stomach and it blinks its baby-like eyes and turns towards you and writhes happily. ... Pleo fascinated him: "I fell in love with this dinosaur," he says. "I loved the artificial intelligence component."
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| Author:
| Charles Arthur and Ian Peel
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| Orig. Date:
| July 31 2008
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| Source:
| The Guardian
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Comments:
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:15:31 -0700
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