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robot gender
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thu 2004-may-06 15:48:14 pdt
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Article about gender
in robots...
Basically, the theory is that as robots become more integrated into
our lives, it will become more important that they have associated
genders. I'm not so sure. I mean, certainly the gender of humans
affects how we interact with them. But does that mean that in the
absence of gender we are just unable to conceive of how to interact
with an entity? Plus, for something like the Roomba, which is not at
all humanoid, does gender even have any effect at all? I certainly
interact with a cat in exactly the same way whether it is in fact male
or female. Honestly, I don't even really think of cats as having
gender at all, hence the use of the pronoun "it". And the Roomba
seems a lot more like a cat than a person.
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