Entrepreneur and MIT scientist Cynthia Breazeal says the future of computing will include robots that can elicit emotional responses from humans — responses that could help improve their lives and help achieve personal goals.
Consider two examples, Breazeal said at marketing and technology conference FutureM this past week. In one recent study, a robot named Autumn helped users not only lose weight but also keep the weight off.
“These are machines that can help you be able to transform yourself into the person you want to become,” she said. In the other example, a robot that looked like a fuzzy stuffed animal helped young boost their vocabulary.
Breazeal also hopes that her own invention, a social robot named Jibo, will help improve people’s lives in a different way.
