For more than a century, robots have played a starring role in our visions of the future. Whether these sci-fi automatons would turn out to be our companions and servants or our enemies and overlords was always an open question. But one thing was certain: Robots would one day walk among us, for better or worse. While […]
of humans and robots coexisting in society. with millions of funding from the national science foundation, the largest robot human experiment to date is looking to see if fiction can become reality. in tonight s eye on america, cbs s omar villafranca chose white has less to do with circuit boards and more to do with us. reporter: when they walk around campus come all of the attention is on them. it s the dog. reporter: they are on four legs or four wheels. the robots roaming the campus at the university of texas at austin are part of a groundbreaking science and social experiment deep in the heart of texas robotics program. social scientist keri stephens and engineer luis sentis are both working on the project. you want to see how these programmable robots are interacting with nonprogrammable humans, basically. yeah, absolutely. what we are getting here as we are not so much addressing, 1-1 interaction with a particular