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Home robots won’t just be helpers and cleaners—they’ll be teachers and trainers, too.
Stefania Druga shares the story behind her thesis project
A series of images from the Preschool Oriented Programming (AI) curriculum.
By Monica Orta
Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.
Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits
Parental involvement is very important for guiding children’s interactions with smart technologies, says Stefania Druga.
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...
How can humans and AI devices learn to get along?
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."
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
Robots only want your love...and occasionally some anonymized metadata.
What will it do to kids to have digital butlers they can boss around?
A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions
Artificial intelligence has a new job: setting a good example for your kids. It seems that children’s behaviour can be influenced by the ...
If we want socially assistive robots instead of robot overlords, well, that’s on us.
Cynthia Breazeal is an associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, where she also acts as Director of the Personal Robots Grou...
Video: AI for all, not just a few.
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by affixing sti...
What do children think about machines that think?
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 has been called the mother of personal robotics, and it’s easy to see why. For more than ten years, she has brought fort...
What if we could train a robot the way we train a pet? With the TAMER project, a technically unskilled user can teach a robot tasks and c...
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.
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...