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Understanding children's relationships with social robots

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.

Abstract:About a year ago, knowing nothing about robotics, I joined Willow Garage with one mission: to create robots so easy to use that everyone, including persons with disabilities, could use them t