An MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert chronicles the past, present, and future of our relationships to animals to create a compelling vision of what our robotic future could look like. As consumer robotics investment booms and human-robot interaction increasingly enters into workplaces and households all over the world, much space has been devoted to talking about robots as replacements for humans. Kate Darling looks at our rich legal and cultural history of using animals for weaponry, work, and companionship to consider how people and machines will work together.
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