Kate Darling

There is if you're not trying to get through with a shopping cart and a screaming child.

You know, I think you could make it charming.

I think there are lots of design tricks that they could have used.

And one of the things they did, I think, without thinking about it at all, is they slapped two big googly eyes on Marty.

And I wonder if that contributed maybe to people feeling watched because it's looking at them.

And so is there a way to design the robot to do the function that it's doing in a way that people are actually attracted to rather than annoyed by?

And there are many ways to do that, but companies aren't thinking about it.

Now they're realizing that they should have thought about it.

Yeah, what I say to you, no one's gonna hear that, right?

Yeah, that's true, that's true.

No, no, I'm kidding.

Right.

I haven't looked into, I mean, I've seen people joking about it on Twitter and like posting whatever.

But haven't video games figured this out?

I'm not a gamer, so I don't have any examples.

But I feel like there's this whole world in video games where they've thought about all of this.

And depending on the game, they have different avatars.

And a lot of the games are about connecting with others.

The thing that I don't know is, and again, I haven't looked into this at all.

I've been shockingly not very interested in the metaverse.