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Breazeal as seen in an episode of NOVA scienceNOW.

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 (2007) 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

Books

Breazeal, Cynthia (2002). Designing Sociable Robots. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02510-8.
Brown, Jordan (2005). Robo World: The Story of Robot Designer Cynthia Breazeal. The Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 0-309-09556-5.

External links

Home page
Association for Computing Machinery Video Interviews with Cynthia Breazeal
Featured on PBS' Nova
iWASwondering.org Cynthia Breazeal featured on kids Website encouraging young people to pursue science.

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-She is currently ([[2004]]) the lead researcher on the Sociable Machines project focusing on social interaction and socially situated learning between people and [[humanoid robot]]s.  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 currently ([[2007]]) the lead researcher on the Sociable Machines project focusing on social interaction and socially situated learning between people and [[humanoid robot]]s.  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]].