Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group.
She is also the Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives for The Bridge at the MIT Quest for Intelligence.
Her research focuses on the design and impact of highly personalized social robots that build a relationship with people to help them achieve meaningful goals in areas such as personalized education, health and wellness at home, and aging in place.
Author of the book ‘Designing Sociable Robots,’ she speaks at venues such as TED, the Computer Electronics Show, South by Southwest, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations on topics related to AI, innovation, and society.
She is a recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Gilbreth Lecture Award and a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
She has received Technology Review’s TR100/35 Award and the George R.
Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Award, and was honored for TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2008.