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Further Reading

Books
Breazeal, Cynthia. Designing Sociable Robots. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 2002.
Focusing primarily on the famous robot Kismet, this accessible book
explains the many design issues and parameters involved in building
robots that can interact in humanlike ways, including sensory, motiva-
tional, emotional, behavioral, and facial expression systems.
Brooks, Rodney. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2002.
Cynthia Breazeal’s mentor, Rodney Brooks, describes his research
and how he came to develop the idea of “situated” and “embodied”
robots with a layered architecture of behaviors.

Articles
Cohen, Adam. “The Machine Nurturer.” Time, 4 December 2000,
pp. 110 ff.
Includes an interview with Cynthia Breazeal and good background
on Kismet.
Dreifus, Claudia. “A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One with Social
Skills and a Smile.” New York Times, 10 June 2003, p. F3.
Another interview with Cynthia Breazeal.
Whynott, Douglas, and Fenella Saunders. “The Robot That Loves
People.” Discover, October 1999, p. 66.
Describes encounters with the robot Kismet.

Web Sites
Cynthia Breazeal. URL: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab.
Accessed on September 3, 2005.
Home page at the MIT Media Lab Robotic Life Group; includes sum-
maries of research and downloadable movies of Kismet in action.
Robotic Life. URL: http://robotic.media.mit.edu. Accessed on
September 3, 2005.
Home page for the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab;
includes introduction to its mission and ongoing research projects,
including the robot Leonardo (under “Sociable Robots”).