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Friendly Nurse or Nightmare-Inducing Machine? How Culture Programs Our Taste in Robots.


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Robots in nurse uniforms

Robots wearing nurse uniforms carry medical documents Wednesday at Mongkutwattana General Hospital in Bangkok.

Credit: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

Slowly and silently, they glide across the floor wearing bright yellow dresses that look as though they were plucked from a haunted 1920s boarding school.

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