External News Details

• Publication: Fast Company
• Article URL: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665597/how-women-are-leading-the-effort-to-make-rob…
• Dateline: Monday December 19, 2011

At the center of the push for more "socially aware" robots is a group of women leading the charge. Andrea Thomaz (Interactive Computing) is certainly one of them, and the goal for her robot, Simon, is for it to learn from people through regular human interactions, rather than programming. Source: Fast Company

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College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

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Andrea Thomaz, RIM, robotics, robotics and intelligent machines, School of Interactive Computing, simon, Social Robots

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• Created By: Mike Terrazas
• Workflow Status: Published
• Created On: Dec 19, 2011 - 10:40am
• Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:25pm