Yeah…I’m a geek

This gave me nightmares last night…

David Hanson presents further advancements in his journey to try and build sentience and empathy into robotics:

Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on [...]

Totally creepy and yet somehow cool at the same time.  I am not totally following the logic of using this technology within nursing homes and in childcare, but as with so many innovations, the business model will invent itself at some point.  Thanks Giz!