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Rodney Brooks on the Future of Robots
     

It's been a while since we've seen a Rodney Brooks interview,
so we thought you'd enjoy reading Newsweek's recent
interview. He talks about the importance of gaze direction in making
robots socially interact with humans. He answers the question of what
the most interesting robots are that he's seen lately. He talks about the
Uncanny Valley and human-looking robots. He says that the popular
conception of robots as different from humans is an artificial
distinction since we're both machines, just of different types. But he
notes, "Whether we humans are smart enough to build such machines is
a different question. Maybe we're just not smart enough. That pisses off
the scientists when I say that.".
   

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