Personal Robots group
I grew up in a small town in Transylvania, and will always remember the day when I assembled my first computer and loaded the first mp3 s...
Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.
“The goal is to have a companion that has all of the behaviors that we want to instill and promote in the child”
Members of the Media Lab community to speak at SXSW 2018.
They are reading to kids, singing lullabies to them and even taking naps with them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) toys are coming into our...
It’s cute when a kid asks, “Alexa, did you farted?,” but as the realm of smart technology quickly evolves from household voice assistants...
When I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried ...
Meet Tega—one of the newest creations from the Personal Robots Group (PRG), led at the MIT Media Lab by associate professor of ...
"We have to provide information in the way the human mind evolved to receive it."
Robots only want your love...and occasionally some anonymized metadata.
What will it do to kids to have digital butlers they can boss around?
How can humans and AI devices learn to get along?
If we want socially assistive robots instead of robot overlords, well, that’s on us.
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
Video: AI for all, not just a few.
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions
What do children think about machines that think?
Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months. We are currently running a study with f...
AUR is a robotic desk lamp, a collaborative lighting assistant. It serves as a non-anthropomorphic robotic platform as part of research o...
Artificial intelligence has a new job: setting a good example for your kids. It seems that children’s behaviour can be influenced by the ...
As robots move out of factory floors and into human environments, out from safe barricaded workstations to operating in close proximity w...
This article originally appeared in the MIT News. Visit the link for more details.For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts Univ...
Cynthia Breazeal is an associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, where she also acts as Director of the Personal Robots Grou...
Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by affixing sti...
Cynthia Breazeal has been called the mother of personal robotics, and it’s easy to see why. For more than ten years, she has brought fort...
A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.