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as PF Magic’s Petz. Their design intentionally encourages people to establish a long-term
relationship with them.

2.4 Summary

In this chapter, I have motivated the construction of sociable robots from the viewpoint of
building robots that are natural and intuitive to communicate with and to teach. I summarized
a variety of related efforts in building embodied tchnologies that interact with people. My
work with Kismet is concerned both with supporting human-style communication as well
as with providing the infrastructure to support socially situated learning. I discussed how
social interaction and social cues can address some of the key challenges in robot learning
in new and interesting ways. These are the capabilities I have taken particular interest in
building into Kismet.