{"id":1250,"date":"2011-04-12T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2015-11-21T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T16:11:18","slug":"principles-of-robot-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/principles-of-robot-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles of robot design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to think, through <a href=\"http:\/\/lirec.eu\">Lirec<\/a> about what the difference is between designing a robot and designing a teapot. I will probably go back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Design-Future-Things-Don-Norman\/dp\/0465002285\/ref=pd_sim_b_5\">Don Norman&#8217;s book<\/a> (even if I hated it the first time around) shortly but in the meantime, here&#8217;s 3 little things I&#8217;m thinking about that would possibly justify developing a robot versus a &#8220;machine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Does it do the job better than a human?<br \/>\n&#8211; Does it help a human?<br \/>\n&#8211; Does the human care about it?<\/p>\n<p>Dunno. Still thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to think, through Lirec about what the difference is between designing a robot and designing a teapot. I will probably go back to Don Norman&#8217;s book (even if I hated it the first time around) shortly but in the meantime, here&#8217;s 3 little things I&#8217;m thinking about that would possibly justify developing a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/principles-of-robot-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Principles of robot design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","category-techy-stuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-ka","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}