Elon Musk Is Building the Wrong Robot
The engineering case for humanoid robots justifies the legs and the hands. It does not justify the face.
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An essay series on anthropomorphism in robotics. Human-shaped machines are walking into our homes, and almost nobody is asking whether the human shape is there for the task — or for us. These essays take that question apart: what the resemblance costs in engineering, what it does to our psychology, and how to design machines that don't lie about what they are.
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