Dr Cynthia Breazeal
The Personal Side Of Robots

We had an amazing lecture by Dr Cynthia Breazeal from MIT on Wednesday night. Cynthia discussed the work that she and her team are currently engaged in at MIT. Beginning with what inspired her as a little girl to go on and study robotics — C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars — Cynthia summed up robotics as the expression of a drive towards human self-understanding that spans philosophy, science, and even performance art. Her presentation incorporated some videos of the experiments that are currently being conducted in MIT such as the Leonardo project. Be prepared to be amazed at some of the behavior her robots mimic. There’s little doubt that artificial intelligence is not such a remote possibility anymore. For more information please read the full report here.