I don't know about you but I for one would certainly be inclined to stop and help out this friendly but very lost robot find it's way.
For her thesis Kacie Kinzer designed these 'tweenbots' as human-dependant robots that rely on human intervention to get to their end destination. With only a simple forward travelling motor, friendly expression and a flag or sign with their intended goal, these robots are being let loose and their long trek documented for insight into the complex human connections that come out of it.
Even for humans New York could be pretty daunting, so it was with some surprise that the first trail runs resluted in great numbers of people all helping these robots out, all of which remained intact and even reached their intended goals.
"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. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining its destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot."
If you happen to live in NY and see one of these little guys then please lend a hand!
Lee, x.
P.S. Robots are awesome.
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