Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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MIT Media Lab

Website - robotic.media.mit.edu

youtube.com/PersonalRobotsGroup

Founder and director - Cynthia Breazeal

Projects and products:

Huggable, robotic companion for healthcare, education, and social communication applications

Tega, social robot

DragonBots, robotic toys

Nexi, humanoid robot

Leonardo, mini humanoid robot

Cyberflora, robotic flower garden

MeBot, semi-autonomous robotic avatar

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Contingent vs. non-conginent robots

Published on Jan 16, 2015

This video explains a study we did comparing children's learning from two robots - one with social behavior contingent on what the child was doing, the other with non-contingent behavior. The robots were remote-operated by a human.

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Tega Robot Concept Animation

Published on Jan 16, 2015

Conceptual animation for a new social robotics research platform, Tega, at the Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab. by Fardad Faridi

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Zipperbot

Published on Feb 1, 2015

Adam Whiton's Ph.D thesis work. Sartorial Robotics

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Robots interact with stuff

Published on Mar 27, 2015

Social robots are designed to naturally engage with people - in our own world, at our own level. In the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, we design robots and develop techniques and technologies to enable robot partners to help people in different domains, such as education and healthcare. Here are a few examples of interactions our robots have had.

Thanks to all the students and postdocs of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, past and present, who developed the robots, technologies, and projects shown in this video.