Eve Herold

There's something about the combination of movement, language,

eye contact, facial expression that very easily creates an illusion, a powerful illusion of life to us.

And our brains have a hard time distinguishing between that and reality.

We actually have robots on the market that are pretty abled for things like teaching and childcare, elder care, companionship.

They can do rudimentary things around the house.

Like, you know, if you have an older person, they can fetch them their medicine with a glass of water, put the glass of water back where it belongs.

things like that.

We have robots that are pretty abled, I think more so than what most people realize is going on out there.

What needs to happen is that the price needs to come down for them to be widely implemented.

But I think that's coming too.

I think that's on the way.

People are slowly getting used to Alexa, to all kinds of smart devices.

I think they're going to be embraced.

Oh, they do all the time.

People even think they're Roombas.

They tell them you did a good job, Roomba.

It's just part of human psychology.

There are certain things that we are just simply hardwired for.

Anthropomorphism is one.

Being fooled by something that...