robotics != animatronics I dont care how sympathetic my mechanical slave is. I just want it to spot weld my car bodies perfectly, repeatedly and cheaply. Peop

robotics != animatronics I dont care how sympathetic my mechanical slave is. I just want it to spot weld my car bodies perfectly, repeatedly and cheaply. People adapt to technology -- you dont need to anthropomorphize the outputs, you need to make them simple to understand. LEDs, tones, motion etc can all do this without getting in the way of a robots core functions the way a sophisticated expressive system would. R2D2 'nuff said