My Robot Companion

“My Robot Companion” is an interactive video/robotic art installation by artists Alex May and Anna Dumitriu in collaboration with Dr. Michael Walters and Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn from the Adaptive Systems Research Group at Hertfordshire University. The installation invites visitors to consider what they want from a domestic robot companion, and what should it look like. In this instance, would a robot that looked somewhat familiar to the people around it set them more or less at ease.