Cynthia breazeal biography videos
Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots.
Cynthia breazeal biography videos
Cynthia Breazeal
American computer scientist
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Breazeal in 2017 | |
| Born | (1967-11-15) November 15, 1967 (age 57) Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara (B.S., EECS, 1989) MIT (S.M., 1993; Sc.D., 2000) |
| Known for | Robotics, Jibo, and K-12 AI literacy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, robotics |
| Doctoral advisor | Rodney Brooks |
Cynthia Breazeal is an American robotics scientist and entrepreneur.
She is a former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed personal assistant robots. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab.[1] Her most recent work has focused on the theme of living everyday life in the presence of AI, and gradually gaining insight into