Are Androids Better Robots?
Writte by robots.net the 28/12/2006
Roland Piquepaille writes, "The latest issue of Connection
Science
is dedicated to Android Science. This special
issue was co-edited by
Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School
of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of
the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University.
As you'll find out in "I, Robot; You,
Human", these scientists have previously worked together on the
development of Repliee Q1Expo, an android that was introduced at the
2005 World Exposition in Aizu, Japan. And throughout a selection of
scientific papers, they try to answer this question: are androids better
than mechanical-looking robots?" For more, see Roland's blog and our
previous article on Hiroshi Ishiguro and his
androids.

