Here's a heart-warming story, especially if you are a robot.
Kacie Kinzer, a graduate student at New York's Tisch School of
the Arts, ran a project to
see if anyone would be interested in helping a lost little robot
make its way around the city.
Kinzer is enrolled in ITP, a two-year graduate program that aims
to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies.
Kinzer's smiley cardboard-covered Tweenbots, which travel only
in straight lines, have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely
on people they meet to read the flag and to aim them in the right
direction to reach their goal.
The first task, to get from the north east to the south west
corner of Washington Square Park, took 42 minutes and help from 29
people.
Kinzer said, "The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are
released in the city becomes a story of people's willingness to
engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of
vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the
means of achieving its goal alone."
Video of Tweenbot crossing New York >>
