Sociable Robots

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:28 am

Lecture about Sociable Robots at MIT Museum

Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they “open up a new world of questions.” But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea of human relationships and the very “purpose, importance, of living things.”

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