Grady Booch: 10-DoF robot face engineering is great, but I object to the design
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-22
Software engineering luminary Grady Booch says he opposes anthropomorphizing robots and objects even more to gratuitous hypersexualization. Still, he praises the engineering of the robot's 10 degrees of freedom in the face and head, while objecting to other design choices.
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