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Transrobotism: Human-Robot Bonds
April 24, 2007
Rodney Brooks robotics specialist
Joy Hirsch director, fMRI Research Center, Columbia University
Sherry Turkle director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
Peter L. Galison professor, history of science, Harvard
David Rodowick professor, environmental studies, Harvard
Pia Lindman artist in residence, MIT AI lab

A panel discusses the emerging new realities of human-machine relationships. When a humanoid robot successfully mirrors human emotion and evokes an emotional response from us, what happens to our understanding of ourselves and our emotional reality?

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