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    Hi, Robot: Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley

    Guest bloggers Henry Wellman and Kimberly Brink reflect on their new study shedding light on how adults, older children and young children perceive human-like robots — and what the future might hold.
    by Kimberly Brink Dec 16, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Devrimb

    Henry Wellman is the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Kimberly Brink is a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at the University of Michigan.

    Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov collected a series of his short stories on robots in his now famous anthology I, Robot.

    The series "revolutionized science fiction ... and made robots far more interesting than they ever had been," according to the Saturday Evening Post.

    begins with a lesser-known story: . Robbie is an experimental robot brought home by George Weston, a robotics engineer, to nanny his 4-year-old daughter Gloria. Quickly, Gloria and Robbie become inseparable. He plays games with Gloria, and she speaks for him and tells stories to the mute quasi-humanoid device. Gloria

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