Cynthia Breazeal
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Prof. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She developed the robot Kismet as a doctoral research project looking into expressive social exchange between humans and humanoid robots.
Prof. Breazeal has developed:
- planetary micro-rovers
- upper-torso humanoid robots
- expressive robotic faces
She is currently (2004) the lead researcher on the Sociable Machines project focusing on social interaction and socially situated learning between people and humanoid robots. Prof. Breazeal also had a prominent role as a virtual participant in a popular exhibit on robots at the Boston Museum of Science, interacting with a real C-3PO and R2-D2 as she spoke to the audience through a pre-recorded message displayed on a large plasma flat-screen display.
She is also the director of the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Laboratory.
See also: Rodney Brooks
[edit] Books
- Breazeal, Cynthia (2002). Designing Sociable Robots. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02510-8.
