Archive for June, 2003

A Passion to Build a Better Robot

Tuesday, June 10th, 2003

A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One With Social Skills and a Smile | “Dr. Cynthia L. Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for her robots, not just because they they are programmed to perform specific tasks, but because they seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions to the world around them. They are ‘embodied, she says, even ’sociable’ robots — experimental machines that act like living creatures.”