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A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Enhancing human physical capability
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Anyone who is age 60+, speaks English, lives in the US, and has access to Wi-Fi is eligible.
A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occu...
Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspac...
Established in 1999, the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund makes awards on an annual basis to students in SA+P.
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
Randi Williams talks about her work. Her advice to girls is never to be afraid to make yourself heard; your ideas are essential.
Anastasia Ostrowski talks to the Digital Future Society about her work in this Q+A.
ML Learning
Nature profiles researchers from a variety of different fields, including the Lab’s own Cynthia Breazeal, who are shaping the future of AI.
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...
For the paper: "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing"
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Creating technology for social change
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...
How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...
Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning ou...
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...
The LEGO Papert Fellowship program was officially launched in 2017.
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
MIT Quest for Intelligence shares AI-focused UROP projects, including senior Nicole Thumma's work with the Personal Robots group.
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Can robots help teachers improve classroom learning?
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...
"I don’t think that AI will have fulfilled its full potential unless it can help us unlock human potential.”
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
MIT researchers and collaborators have developed an open-source curriculum to teach young students about ethics and artificial intelligence.
Labber Hae Won Park talks to NBC News Learn about how social robots can help children develop language skills.
Ali, S., Moroso, T., Breazeal, C. (2019). Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? In Proceedings of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2019.
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
Kate Darling and other experts consider how our interactions with robots may change the way we engage not only with robots, but also people.
Mabu is about the size of a kitchen appliance and assists with day-to-day healthcare needs through daily "conversations."
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Advancing Wellbeing
My latest research in Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots group has been on relational technology.
When they’re valued as design research partners, older adults feel empowered to contribute to technology design.
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots group, and her collaborators talk to US News about Huggable.
Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.
Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...
A paper introduces machine behavior: the interdisciplinary study of AI systems as a new class of actors with unique behavioral patterns.
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy...
Kate Darling explores the human implications of the ways we treat robots and other machines.
Rosalind Picard and Kate Darling join other experts to discuss how and why humans empathize with machines.
Mechanical mentors try to find their place as teacher’s helpers.
Researchers present a user-centered design approach to creating intelligent social technologies to empower and help older adults at home.
The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...