Key found to making robots human-friendly
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21644161/
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Touch could also be key to making robots accepted by humans as social peers, scientists say.
On average, robots today can hold human interest for only about 10 hours, but in a new study, a humanoid robot dubbed QRIO (pronounced "curio") was accepted by human toddlers as "one of them" for 5 months before it was taken away.
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they're really trying to get these kids while they're young. the leaders of tomorrow won't even see it coming...
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