Stanford Center for Design Research experiments. Stanford, California, USA


Adventures of an Adolescent Trash Barrel Robot

Stanford Center for Design Research project looking at how people interact with an everyday robot in the wild.
 

How a robot trashcan was treated shows how terrible people really are

Published on Mar 29, 2016

How we treat a speechless, wordless robot could show us all our own attitudes that we project...and if this experiment proves anything...we've got a long way to go! Do you treat robots like pets? Servants?

Kim Horcher and Bryan Forrest (Actor, Stunt Performer) and Alexander Ward (Actor, Suit Performer) discuss!

"What Does Your Reaction to a Robotic Trash Can Say About You?"
Predict the future of humanity by piloting around a robotic garbage barrel.

by Cara Giaimo
March 18, 2016
 
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