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The Rise of Personal Robots

Cynthia Breazeal

Posted: Mar 31, 2011

As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn—and play.

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Peter Wicks • http://peterwicks.wordpress.com • Apr 2, 2011

Can somebody tell her to design a robot that tells someone when they're talking too much? What I have in mind is a cute, small robot that you could take with you to meetings and social occasions, would notice when you're bored and would then cough politely, look apologetically at the person concerned and say, "I think you're boring him/her". At any sign of aggression it would scream and look terrified. I would pay good money for such technology. I would definitely take it with me to the office.

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