So what is the big deal? The answer is simple: assimilation. While Bell's first telephone call made history — "Watson come here, I need you" — what really mattered is when the guy down the ...

"However, this robot moves as I want it to. It feels like an assimilation between myself and the robot, with the robot moving like my own fingertips... I find this robot highly capable." ...

Bartneck's Milgram Study With Robots In Bartneck's study, the robot — an expressive cat that talks like a human — sits side by side with the human research subject, and together they play a ...