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From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders

Nature Machine Intelligence volume 1, pages 170–171 (2019)Cite this article

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In my working life, I mainly do research in social robotics: as I usually describe it to people, my overall goal is to develop robots that are able to have a face-to-face conversation with a human, in as natural a setting as possible. In practice, therefore, much of my research career involves developing interactive robots and then putting the robots into the world and seeing how people interact with and react to them.

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    Mary Ellen Foster

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Robots runs until 5 May 2019 at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Tickets, £10.

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Foster, M.E. From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders. Nat Mach Intell 1, 170–171 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0043-2

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