Cynthia Breazeal fell in love with robots when she was a young girl in 1977. Robots were very futuristic then and apart and aside from seeing them in movies they were not seen in everyday life.
This book will fascinate you from beginning to end. It relates the quest of MIT robotics professor Cynthia Breazeal to build a social robot, one that learns like a person does and that interacts with people in a social way, understanding and showing human-like emotions.
Our modern world was created, shaped, influenced, and made possible by innovative inventions arising from the minds of their creators. "A Great Idea" is an eleven volume series from Norwood House Press that showcases contemporary advances in technology that make unique contributions to modern life.
