11/27/2023 0 Comments Moxie robotIn 2016, Pirjanian cofounded Embodied with the roboticist Maja Matarić to build a better social robot. ![]() But what if we could tap into our natural empathy for the unnatural and build robots whose job is connecting with humans? Our attachment to these automatons is all the more remarkable because they weren’t designed to forge human connections they were built to do a job. ![]() We can’t help seeing agency, even when we know full well these machines are just following coded instructions. ![]() “Our experience tells us that it’s a living thing with a life and a consciousness all its own.” It’s the same reason why we mourn the "death" of a Mars rover or laugh when Atlas doesn’t quite land a backflip. “There’s something innate in our mind that triggers when we see something move on its own,” says Pirjanian.
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