BeggarBots

Robots are so often built as idealistic visions of how we wish human beings could function. Our favorite bots like Qrio and Asimo attempt to be flexible and motile and reproduce our best facets - we are gods, creating robots in our own form. Yet what about robots that work to replace our less favorable aspects? Artist Saso Sedlacek tackles this with some humor with his 'Beggar' robot made from cheap discarded computer tech which has the robot to do the begging instead of humans. Saving the materially deprived from the labor of shaming themsleves to survive. The future of robotics.