# What's it like to be a robot?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxPaloAlto
- Speaker: Leila Takayama
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

We already live among robots: tools and machines like dishwashers and thermostats so integrated into our lives that we'd never think to call them that. What will a future with even more robots look like? Social scientist Leila Takayama shares some unique challenges of designing for human-robot interactions -- and how experimenting with robotic futures actually leads us to a better understanding of ourselves.

## Lectures

1. [What's it like to be a robot?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot/8e9f0d34185c), 13 min (TED's player)