Designing Sociable Robots

Author/creator Breazeal, Cynthia L. Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge : MIT Press
Description284 p. ill 22.200 x 016.900 cm.
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SeriesIntelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Ser.
Summary Annotation Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, asynthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understandus, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be sociallyintelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, ascollaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our socialcharacteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human socialintelligence and even what it means to be human.Breazeal defines the keycomponents of social intelligence for these machines and offers a framework and set of design issuesfor their realization. Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed namedKismet. Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from thescientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classicalanimation. This blending of science, engineering, and art creates a lifelike quality that encouragespeople to treat Kismet as a social creature rather than just a machine. The book includes a CD-ROMthat shows Kismet in action.
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