Exploration of Sentience and Humanity:

Emotional design is the concept of how to create designs that evoke emotions which result in positive user experiences. Designers aim to reach users on three cognitive levels—visceral, behavioral and reflective—so users develop o...

The robots dreamt up over the last hundred years have similar traits:

• Highly efficient mechanical or genetically modified/cloned humans created artificially through an industrial process.
• Doing mundane tasks that humans used to do with precision and without the need of re...

Robots have been in the popular culture for the past century, but the concept of human beings creating something that resembles them but is different or flawed, goes back to the early 19th century, with Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic Frankenstein.

Stories involving robots and simila...