We designed and built the robot from a Qwerk robot controller on loan, some servos, $10 in lumber, a teddy bear, some orange cadmium paint, three laptops, and whatever parts we could scrounge together.
It worked.
However, an option for testing at a nursing home never materialized, and we had to resort to testing on a Carnegie Mellon dormitory floor, which wasn't as much an equivalent as we had hoped. Our robot had only two users, one each in our two visits to the dormitory, and was never tested in its effectiveness at causing strangers to meet one another.
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