Can tweenbots help us become more human?

As Andy Crouch of Culturemaking ponders: “Would it work as well, though, if the robot wasn’t “cute”? This  ’little’ and ‘cute’ lost robot seems to encourages us to interact none the less, as artist Kacie Kinzer has found with an art experiment performed in various locations in New York City. Watch the video. The artist is connected with ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is “to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible”. Fascinating.