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Designing Sociable Robots (Intelligent Robotics & Autonomous Agents) (Paperback)

by CL Breazeal (Author)

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Paperback: 281 pages
Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (7 Sep 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0262524317
ISBN-13: 978-0262524315
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 16.6 x 1.8 cm

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"Magisterial." - Peter Skinner, Foreword; "Dr. Cynthia Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for her robots, not just because they are programmed to perform specific acts, but because they seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions to the world around them.... Dr. Breazeal [writes] about her adventures as a modern-day Mary Shelley in her book Designing Sociable Robots." - Claudia Dreifus, the New York Times

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Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, and to learn and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as collaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our social characteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. Breazeal defines the key components of social intelligence for these machines and offers a framework and set of design issues for their realisation. Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed named Kismet. Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from the scientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classical animation. This blending of science, engineering, and art creates a lifelike quality that encourages people to treat Kismet as a social creature rather than just a machine. The book includes a CD-ROM that shows Kismet in action.

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This review is from: Designing Sociable Robots (Intelligent Robotics & Autonomous Agents) (Hardcover)

The book is well structured, and includes many photos and diagrams. I found it useful because I work exactly on the same topic. However, most of its content can be found elsewhere (in published articles). The accompanying CD-ROM includes very interesting videos, although I think they can also be found elsewhere. In summay, I definitely recommend this book, but only if you are really interested in the topic and/or in Kismet, and you want to know as many details as you can.

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