Ep. 42 - Disney Robots

Tom and Dr. Julie Carpenter talk about the latest news of Disney filing a patent for a kind of soft robot for their theme parks.

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• Disney files robot patent application
• Full line up of proposed Disney robots
• Push Trashcan robot
• Astro Boy
• Baymax of Big Hero 6
• Bibendum, the Michelin Man
• Hanson Robotics
• Sophia robot on Jimmy Fallon Tonight show
• Julie’s chapter (Deus Sex Machina: Loving Robot Sex Workers, and the Allure of an Insincere Kiss) will appear in this forthcoming book, Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications
• Emotional Design, by Donald A. Norman
• Uncanny Valley
• Paro therapeutic robots
• Little girl mistakes hot water heater for robot
• Mountain View “engineer” assaults security robot