Phobot, the phobic robot
Phobot - the HRI2008 Student Design Competition winner!

Phobot in the media!

A number of media outlets have featured stories related to HRI'08 and Phobot.

Phobot press coverage:
- Phobot made Nature's news sideline! Brave Little Toaster
- Cowardly "Phobot" Steals Show at Amsterdam Robot Conference - Associated Press, covered on e.g. FOX News, The Sydney Morning Herald, After Effects, Brisbane Times, MSNBC.
- Overcoming fear with phobot the robot - Associated Press video .
- Fearful "Phobot" wins at Amsterdam robot conference - People's Daily Online, China.
- To fear is to feel - Mumbai Times.
- Phoboter fürchtet sich zum Sieg - Der Spiegel Online, Germany.
- Winning robot designed to show fear - The Wired Campus, also on Ya-Edu Education news.
- Amsterdam's local tv station AT5 aired a piece on Phobot on April 2nd in "Kort Amsterdams".

Check out our presentation and a short interview in this video the Volkskrant did on HRI'08 (in dutch)

Blogs/forums:
- Lego Robots in Amsterdam - by Toby Sterling
- Fok.nl (in dutch)
- Tweakers.net (in dutch)
- GeenCommentaar.nl (interview in dutch)

Phobot presentation at HRI'08

Phobot presentation recap at HRI'08