The team behind GlowBots have various backgrounds, including physics, complex adaptive systems, computer science, cognitive science, HCI a is a robotic design is based on a previous study where we interviewed owners of rather unusual pets such as snakes, spiders and lizards.
We have then tried to transfer some of the specific qualities

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found in their interaction and relationships with their pets to explore the design-space in everyday robotics. GlowBots is the first proof-of-concept robotic design implementation that came as a direct result from this study. The current generation Glowbots display supershapes in red and green.

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