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Cynthia Breazeal

Also Known As Cynthia Lynn Breazeal · Cynthia L. Breazeal
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Cynthia Breazeal (born 1967) is an American roboticist and professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she directs the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. She is a pioneer of social robotics and human robot interaction, having developed Kismet, widely described as the world's first social robot, capable of engaging people through natural verbal, paralinguistic and nonverbal cues such as gaze, emotion and posture. She later founded the company Jibo to bring social robots into consumer homes.

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Birth Year
1967 1
Birth Date
1967-11-15 1
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1. Cynthia Breazeal (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Cynthia Lynn Breazeal
    Cynthia Lynn Breazeal
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • Wikidata alias: Cynthia L. Breazeal
    Cynthia L. Breazeal
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1967
    1967
  • P569 (date of birth): 1967-11-15
    1967-11-15
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