Kate Darling

So there's lots of, there's lots of ways to make robots even better than humans in some ways and make us relate more to them.

Totally.

I mean, ask any animator and they'll know that.

Yeah.

It seems like they just have their own discipline that they're very good at and they didn't don't have.

You call it basic.

It's actually really complex.

And that's why... But like, I think you're so right.

And what a time to be alive.

Yeah.

Because for me, I just...

We've had robots for so long and they've just been behind the scenes.

And now, finally, robots are getting deployed into the world.

Yeah, and we're seeing all these mistakes that companies are making because they focus so much on the engineering and getting that right and getting the robot to even be able to function in a space that it shares with a human.

Yeah, or ask for help.

Yeah, and there's a whole body of research in human-robot interaction showing ways to do this.

But a lot of these companies don't do HRI.

Have you seen the grocery store robot in the Stop and Shop?

Yeah, the Marty.

It looks like a giant penis.