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Ian BogostIan Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, wrote "A Pocket Guide to the Robot Revolution" for the November 2016 issue of The Atlantic.
Excerpt:
Paro (2003)
This therapeutic baby-seal robot makes eye contact and responds to a person’s touch and speech.Furby (1998)
A hamsterlike toy robot that could gradually learn to speak English. Tens of millions of them were sold in the late ’90s.
For the full article, read here.
