Phobot - a robot created by students from the University of Amsterdam - won top honors at an international conference on Human-Robot Interaction .
Phobot was created to help children deal with phobias. It is programmed to be specifically frightened of other robots. It displays fear, anxiety and avoidance when it is initially confronted by another robot. But as the Phobot moves through a psychological-behavioral program of being exposed to little robots to bigger and bigger ones, it overcomes its fears.
So clever.
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