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Designing Sociable Robots
C. L. Breazeal
The MIT Press
2002
263 pp.
ISBN 0-262-02510-8
L33.50 (with CD-ROM)
Keywords Robots, Design
"Designing Sociable Robots" focuses on Kismet, the first major attempt at creating a social synthetic creature that is capable of communication, learning, understanding, and interacting with people.
Chapter 1, The Vision of Sociable Robots, discusses the reasons for developing sociable robots and introduces Kismet, and ingredients required to create sociable robots. Chapters 2 and...