Should robots have faces? – video
by Richard Sprenger, Alex Healey, Francesca de Bassa, from on (#5AK04)
Many robots are designed with a face - yet don't use their 'eyes' to see, or speak through their 'mouth'. Given that some of the more realistic humanoid robots are widely considered to be unnerving, and that humans have a propensity to anthropomorphise such designs, should robots have faces at all - or do these faces provide other important functions? And what should they actually look like anyway?
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