the secret to a successful robot design for human-robot co-interactive spaces is you have to give the robot cat ears and I am not kidding
like, when you think "robot waiter" there is exactly one robot design you think of and none else
@halcy one time the cat robot ran away with one of our drinks and i had to run after it. realistic cat behaviour

@codl see that's exactly it. instead of getting mad at the shitass robot or its operators the gut reaction is like "aw, kimty"

just an incredibly powerful trick. give robot cat ears and cute expressions, suddenly many of your problems are very effectively mitigated

@halcy @codl *sound of killer robots makers furiously taking notes*

@Ronflaix @codl I mean, they know

look at the cute robot doggy! here's him doing cute robot doggy things! please ignore the fact that one of the big applications of the cute robot doggy is to strap a rocket launcher to it! we don't like talking about that!

@halcy @Ronflaix @codl do you think it's got a teabag setting or do the cops just make it do the doggy dance after using it to do cop stuff