http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/ Engadget Comments for QRIO befriended by toddlers in study http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/But at least he's cute.
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Just wanted to get that out of the way.

Game on!]]>Nov 7th 2007 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/
Signed
Sparky the Aibo]]>Nov 7th 2007 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/
As someone who interacts with small children in that age range on a daily basis, this article is kinda pointless. So what? Small children will react to a stuffed animal being waved around with the adult speaking in a high-pitched voice as though it was human. I've even seen small children do the "night, night" thing with a blanket to stuffed animals I've placed on their sides. They clearly know that the stuffed animal isn't a "real person" (i.e. a sentient being,) even when I've tried to convince them that it was in fact the animal talking and not me. Maybe the toddlers just figure the same thing is going on. Little kids are smarter than they appear.]]>Nov 7th 2007 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/
I just realized...

QRIO is pronounced "Curio", not "Queerro"

XD

Such a cute lil' bot!]]>Nov 7th 2007 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/
www.humansunitedagainstrobots.com]]>Nov 7th 2007 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/
The robot was set to react to touch, when it was touched it would laugh, make a noise, move/dance...whatever. When the touch setting was on the children responded to it and interacted with it like they would another toddler. Even going so far as putting a blanket over and telling it nigh nigh when the batteries died. The 'supervising' adult also treated the robot like a human by instructing by stopping the children from trying to touch/poke the robots in the 'eyes'.

When the touch feature was turned off and the robot was set to do random robot type of things (i.e. dance around like a drunken fool) the kids quickly became bored.

The real point of this is that we begin to see things as 'human' and express empathy for an object when it responds to a humans touch.

So we are all just tools who can be fooled by our soon to be touchy feely robot overlords
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anyways wats the DRM scene on this waste of money..........Is SONY gonna teach kids how to not download illegal music?

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I'd give my squirrels left nut for one. Really I would.]]>Nov 7th 2007 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/qrio-befriended-by-toddlers-in-study/Nov 7th 2007 3:43PM