Nós e Os Robots/Os Robots e Nós: Insights from an exhibition

Abstract

Being an integrant part of ICRE 2015, the exhibition “Nós e os Robots/Os Robots e Nós”, “We and the Robots/The Robots and Us” aimed to bring robotic technology closer to the average citizen in an educational effort that, we believe, should precede the massive deployment of all Information and Communication Technologies and that becomes particularly needed at the verge of a widespread use of robotic technology. This paper gives a brief account of the content and organization of that exhibition and of how the public reacted to it.