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Kacie Kinzer: Robot Love

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Kacie Kinzer: Robot Love

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Beth Cohen

4 Views • Feb 18, 2010

Description

Designer Kacie Kinzer explores what technology can reveal about empathy and cooperation. So she built a Tweenbot, a cardboard robot equipped only with “cuteness and a flag that says ‘help me’” to elicit help from passersby. With the help of 29 strangers, the tiny robot crossed NYC’s Washington Square Park in just 42 minutes.