The Rise Of Personal Robots By Cynthia Breazeal Analysis

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Similar to the film, "The Machines that Changed the World", I found the “The Rise of Personal Robots” by Cynthia Breazeal to be extremely informative, captivating, but also unlike anything I’ve seen before. Although robots have been around for countless of years, robots have always interacted with things not people. Throughout the short film, Breazeal introduces us to several robots that her and her team of graduate students built. Breazeal’s ultimate goal was to create a robot that could interact with human beings. In my opinion, Leonardo, did just that. Leonardo was introduced to the cookie monster, a puppet from Sesame Street. When Leonardo was told that the cookie monster wants to steal his cookies, his response was identical to that of

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