Doron Friedman, Anthony Steed and Mel Slater at University College London, UK, wanted to study whether people interacted differently in virtual worlds from real life. To do so, they created SL-bot, the first walking, talking, recording, wino robot in Second Life. "When it walks around it looks a little spooky" says Friedman. "It looks a bit drunk actually, but it is a great way to get data."
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