Children, Robots and... the Parental Role

  • Authors:
  • Colin T. Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Le Mans University, Laval Cedex 09, France 53020

  • Venue:
  • Minds and Machines
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The raison d'être of this article is that many a spry-eyed analyst of the works in intelligent computing and robotics fail to see the essential concerning applications development, that of expressing their ultimate goal. Alternatively, they fail to state it suitably for the lesser-informed public eye. The author does not claim to be able to remedy this. Instead, the visionary investigation offered couples learning and computing with other related fields as part of a larger spectre to fully simulate people in their embodied image. For the first time, the social roles attributed to the technical objects produced are questioned, and so with a humorous illustration.