Comments on: Why the Pursuit of a ‘Killer App’ for Home Robots Is Fraught With Peril – IEEE Spectrum https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/08/10/why-the-pursuit-of-a-killer-app-for-home-robots-is-fraught-with-peril-ieee-spectrum/ All about electronics and circuit design Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/08/10/why-the-pursuit-of-a-killer-app-for-home-robots-is-fraught-with-peril-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1599680 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:28:43 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=179102#comment-1599680 Therapy Robot Teaches Social Skills to Children With Autism
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/robot-therapy-for-autism

For some children with autism, interacting with other people can be an uncomfortable, mystifying experience. Feeling overwhelmed with face-to-face interaction, such children may find it difficult to focus their attention and learn social skills from their teachers and therapists—the very people charged with helping them learn to socially adapt.

What these children need, say some researchers, is a robot: a cute, tech-based intermediary, with a body, that can teach them how to more comfortably interact with their fellow humans.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/08/10/why-the-pursuit-of-a-killer-app-for-home-robots-is-fraught-with-peril-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1599579 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:53:43 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=179102#comment-1599579 It’s Hard to Deactivate a Robot That’s Begging For its Life
https://www.eeweb.com/profile/max-maxfield/articles/its-hard-to-deactivate-a-robot-thats-begging-for-its-life

It’s bad enough when your pet robot rock stops working or when your pet robot dog sparks its last, but it’s even worse when a robot tells you it’s scared of the dark and begs you not to turn it off.

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