Cynthia Breazeal | |
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Born | Albuquerque, New Mexico, US | November 15, 1967
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 the long-term impacts of social robots.