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Jibo Wants to Be the World’s First Family Robot

Social robots. That’s pretty much all Dr. Cynthia Breazeal has thought about for the past 20 years. Not so much how to build a better robot, but how to build

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SociBot Mini

SociBot mini demonstrates rear projected face technology and speech interaction. This summer’s Intern, Lucy Shenton extended SociBot’s interactive features, integrating speech recognition and intelligent responses.

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Fluffy Little Rovers Are an Effective, Adorable Way of Monitoring Penguins

Generally speaking, wild animals don’t like humans all that much. Even animals that aren’t directly threatened by humans (and won’t immediately attempt to flee) get all kinds of stressed out