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Robotic Presence. Cynthia Breazeal Cory Kidd Matt Hancher John McBean Dan Stiehl Josh Strickon (T. Machover). “Humanizing” the machine. To build robots that have a “living” presence, that people can interact with, communicate with, understand, and teach in human terms.
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Robotic Presence Cynthia Breazeal Cory Kidd Matt Hancher John McBean Dan Stiehl Josh Strickon (T. Machover)
“Humanizing” the machine • To build robots that have a “living” presence, that people can interact with, communicate with, understand, and teach in human terms. • Robots that support human social intelligence • Robots that are socially intelligent themselves • NOT trying to build a human • Implications of Interacting with the “not-quite-human other”
Intuitive Surgical iBOT MIT Human-Machine relations Asimo iRobot Aibo • Seamless, well-balanced, enjoyable interaction • Untrained users, competent machines
Sensitive Synthetic Skin “…Perhaps next to the brain, the skin is the most important of all our organ systems.” • Ashley Montagu, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, 1986, p.4
Robotic Presence Demos at 1cc Sensitive Skin Interactive Robots