So You're Going to Make a Robot Look Like a Human Being? Really!?

Editors’ Note: To celebrate Presence’s 25th year of publication, we have invited selected members of the journal’s original editorial board and authors of several early articles to contribute essays looking back on the field of virtual reality, from its very earliest days to the current time. This essay comes from founding editorial board member Steve Ellis, who discusses the pros and cons of anthropomorphic (human-like) robots.

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