What a Mechanical Performance! Bravo!
“Robots have limited expressive capabilities,” Mr. Saltz said. “So instead of trying to replicate human beings, you embrace those limitations.”
.. Students at first found it difficult to take the robots seriously, she said, viewing them more or less as gimmicks. Over time, however, the actors seem to have warmed up to their mechanical colleagues. “The robot actually gives them permission to play,” Ms. Pileggi said.