Between living and nonliving: Young children's animacy judgments and reasoning about humanoid robots.

Humanoid robots will become part of our everyday lives. They have biologically inspired features and psychologically complex properties. How will children interpret these ambiguous objects, discriminating between living and nonliving kinds? Do the biologically and psychologically inspired characteri...

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Main Authors: Minkyung Kim, Soonhyung Yi, Donghun Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216869