Cynthia Breazeal’s Personal Robots

Today on Far Future Horizons we explore developments in personal robotics. Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop.

But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines “whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind,” and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical interactions.

Currently, Cynthia Breazeal has taken her research one step further towards the development of JIBO, The World’s First Family Robot. 

Cynthia Breazeal’s Personal Robots

JIBO: The World's First Family Robot

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