Making Robots In Our Own Image - Disruption Hub

Slowly but surely, robots are entering the mainstream consumer market. Softbank's chatty Pepper is already dealing with customers at Pizza Hut and Californian clothing store The Ave, Nadine has been working as a receptionist at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and online grocery leaders Ocado are building their own robot mechanic to help human employees. Scarlett Johansson even makes for a particularly effective killing machine in this year's sci-fi action film Ghost in the Shell. Whilst these bots are all used for various different applications within a range of industries, there's one thing they all have in common. In many ways, it seems to make sense that many advanced robots have been given a human design.