Skinny Robot Responds to Your...Gestures

The folks at Brown University and iRobot have built a robot that, according to Nathan Koenig of Brown can, "follow non-verbal commands from a person in a variety of environments."

If you are curious, like me, what that means exactly, check out the following video:



It just makes sense to me that a robot designed to interpret human gestures would be shaped like a giant extended metalic middle finger.