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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

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Animals and Robots - What's the Connection?

Pigeons were the original hobby photography drone. They also carried mail for thousands of years, letting people communicate with each other in new ways. And that's robots, right? Robots have physical abilities. They can help us lift things or do things that we're not physically capable of. They can also sense things. What about companionship and when we start to think about my cats and dogs at pets, they seem to serve no purpose whatsoever except the social connection. I'm convinced that we're going to see the same thing with robots where people are going to develop strong emotional connections to certain robots.

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