How Human Do We Want Our Robots To Look?

Robot Faces Georgia Tech Let's say you're getting a robot butler. (Congratulations on your purchase, future-dweller!) You can choose between three models for your new Jetsons-style Rosie robot: a clearly robotic machine, maybe even a cutesy one, like Wall-E; a more humanoid, personish 'bot, like the android from Metropolis; or a robot that looks just like a real human being. Which do you pick? A new study from Georgia Institute of Technology's Akanksha Prakash and Wendy A. Rogers answered that q...