2000 – MIT team building social robot

Cynthia Breazeal at MIT develop Kismet, a robot designed to interact with human beings through emotional and social cues.³⁰ Kismet is equipped with cameras, microphones and expressive facial features, allowing it to perceive and respond to human emotions such as happiness, sadness and surprise. This development marks an advance in social robotics, exploring how robots can interact with humans more naturally.