Our Associate Professor Christoph Bartneck recently had an interview with vpro, a national television station in Netherlands, as a part of the station’s documentary series on robot. Dr. Bartneck shared his views on humanoid and people’s reaction and expectation toward them, especially how Japanese people take it and why.

The full version of the interview is available here: http://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/japanners-zijn-negatiever-dan-gedacht.html

(Please not the interview is written in Dutch. Translated version by Google is here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vpro.nl%2Fprogrammas%2Ftegenlicht%2Fjapanners-zijn-negatiever-dan-gedacht.html&edit-text=&act=url)