STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS – STORY : New Zealand’s leading news and information website: Inventor builds robot with personality

Mark Tilden believes robots have an image problem.

The Daleks from Dr Who and R2D2 from Star Wars have a lot to answer for.

‘They’ve always been so serious. And because they’ve been so mechanical, their actions look threatening.’

So Dr Tilden set out to produce a friendly robot with personality and a sense of humour that could move around easily.

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