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Article published In: Interaction Studies
Vol. 15:2 (2014) ► pp.173–179

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Building better robots

Lessons from observing relationships between living beings

 | Purdue University, USA
Published online: 20 August 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/is.15.2.02mel
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