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collision detection: A robot for your mom
by Roberta
« We're creating a generation of robots that demand to be taken care of -- because as it turns out, what we as humans most need is to be needed. This is what the toy-makers realize: If you're an 80-year-old Japanese woman who's been effectively abandoned by her kids, maybe what you crave more than anything else is not necesarily attention, but someone who wants you to take care of them. »
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