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I love this idea. Sure, one day it could evolve into what we might of now as a "robot friend," but I view this as an experiment in what humans can find pattern
by frisco 14y ago
I love this idea. Sure, one day it could evolve into what we might of now as a "robot friend," but I view this as an experiment in what humans can find patterns in. We're known for things like finding faces everywhere and ascribing meaning to randomly flashing blinkenlights. We're deeply social creatures. I'm not surprised at all that we'd feel like the little Arduino, with its blinking lights and maybe other basic actuators, connects with us. Rather than trying to build as comprehensive a robot as possible, this becomes an exploration of the minimum robot possible that one can build an emotional connection with. It's an awesome idea.
- orangethirty 14y agoExactly. I'm already planning on building chunky a case. If people can spend money on organic pets, why can't I have a silicon one? I also have a remote control car laying around somewere... :)
- waterlesscloud 14y agoMVR, Minimum Viable Robot. I like it. I made a little python shell kind of thing where I type various commands like "weather" or "bit"(coin) to get status from online sources for those topics. The prompt is an emoticon based on whatever the last temperature it retrieved was. Smiles for nice weather, frowns for too hot, etc. Because why not?