Robots restore faith in humanity

Tweenbots - an experiment in human-computer interaction - are little cardboard robots left out in public somewhere with a flag on their back that says where they're trying to get to. They roll forward at a constant pace, but only change direction if someone is kind enough to pick them up and point them the right way.

The unexpected result is that people really do go out of their way to help these anthropomophised little dudes. One man even pointed the robot back up the way he had just come, saying, "You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

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