Dr. Cynthia Breazeal - Part 1 - The Personal Side Of Robots

Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab. 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.

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[whatnottobe]

@twstdelf im expecting c3po by 2040

[preacherZer0]

great talk hindered by slow camera work. One of the two cameras used here should have been constantly trained on the projector screen.

[themarktron]

I love u Cynthia

[twstdelf]

Cynthia is awesome! I know there are constant improvements, but man I wish it were a little faster. I thought we'd all have a C3PO by now. -_-

[Kudrlin]

She's my idol :) I alwas dreamed that one day I'll study robotics. No chance, no hope. But robotics is my hobby. Cynthia's and Brooks's work on robots Attila and Hannibal in 90's inspired me so much, that I tried to construe similar robot. No chance, I was too young, no money..But today...there is chance :) Its question of time... :) And as she said, she was inspired C3PO and R2D2..in my case it was "Johny 5" - Short circuit :)