Robots in disguise: why do androids have human faces?
826Many robots are designed with a face – like Hitchbot or Pepper robot – yet don't use their 'eyes' to see, or speak through their 'mouth'.
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Given that some of the more realistic humanoid robots, like Sophia, are widely considered to be unnerving, and that humans have a propensity to anthropomorphise such designs in technology, should robots have faces at all - or do these faces provide other important functions? And what should they actually look like anyway? Richard Sprenger explains
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