Should Robots Be Gendered?

I’ve been a follower of embodied AI since i first came across Tengai in 2018 and as more physical robots with AI come into the workplace, new challenges emerge in how think about them (or they objects like tools. or colleagues who happen to be machine?) and how we build relationships with them. Gendering of robots might be the first major challenge we have to face, so this accessible essay is a great outline of the history and potential future for how we might do it. It’s a great read.