Talking Robots: David Hanson

Posted 8 Jun 2007 at 08:18 UTC by mwaibel

The new Talking Robots podcast interviews David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, previously mentioned for their Philip K. Dick android. As an artist, he has a completely different take on robotics than most of his research colleagues. He talks about his patented Frubber skin, discusses his thoughts on the uncanny valley and describes how his robots present us humans with an identity challenge: What does it mean to be human?