IHT Article Print Page ‘Sociable’ robots react to the surrounding world

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Cynthia Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for her robots, not just because they are programmed to perform specific tasks, but because they seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions to the world around them. They are “embodied,” she says, even “sociable” robots. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York is exhibiting a “cyberfloral installation” by Breazeal, which features robotic flowers that sway when a human hand is near and glow in bright colors. Breazeal wrote “Designing Sociable Robots,” released this year by MIT Press. Claudia Dreifus spoke with her for The New York Times.

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