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	Sociable machines - Kismet, the robot
		Kismet is an expressive robotic creature with perceptual and motor modalities tailored to natural human communication channels.
		Kismet has a 15 DoF face that displays a wide assortment of facial expressions to mirror its ``emotional'' state as well as to serve other communicative purposes.
		The robot has four lip actuators, one at each corner of the mouth, that can be curled upwards for a smile or downwards for a frown.
	www.ai.mit.edu /projects/sociable/baby-bits.html (673 words)

	Kismet (robot) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kismet, Fire Island Rentals Information covers weekly and seasonal accommodations with photos and rates.
		Kismet, Kansas Features information on business, churches, education, government, special events, utilities and links.
		Robot is from the Czech word robota, which means drudgery or servitude.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Kismet_(robot).html (368 words)

	Kismet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kismet (robot) is a robot intended to demonstrate simulated emotion.
		Kismet (fate) for the term used in Turkish and the Arabic world to refer to "fate"
		Kismet (DC comics) is a DC Comics character from Superman
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kismet (165 words)

	Idaho National Laboratory - Adaptive Robotics - Humanoid Robotics
		Kismet responds not only to speech, but also to a variety of multi-modal body language including body posture, the distance of the human from the robot, the movements of the human, and the tone, volume and prosody of their speech.
		The robots perform tasks based on their emotional "mood." For instance, if the robot is sad, it may perform actions slowly, whereas if it is angry, it may proceed violently.
		For example, as the robot perceives a push, stroke or hit from a human, it recognizes the action and maps it to an emotional space comprised of axes for pleasantness, certainty and activation (sleep to arousal).
	www.inl.gov /adaptiverobotics/humanoidrobotics/anthropopathicrobots.shtml (809 words)

	Idaho National Laboratory - Adaptive Robotics - Humanoid Robotics
		Kismet responds not only to speech, but also to a variety of multi-modal body language including body posture, the distance of the human from the robot, the movements of the human, and the tone, volume and prosody of their speech.
		The robots perform tasks based on their emotional "mood." For instance, if the robot is sad, it may perform actions slowly, whereas if it is angry, it may proceed violently.
		For example, as the robot perceives a push, stroke or hit from a human, it recognizes the action and maps it to an emotional space comprised of axes for pleasantness, certainty and activation (sleep to arousal).
	www.inel.gov /adaptiverobotics/humanoidrobotics/anthropopathic.shtml (813 words)

	humanoid robot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A humanoid robot is a robot with its overall appearance based on that of the human body.
		In general humanoid robots have a torso with a head, two arms and two legs -- although some forms of humanoid robots may model only part of the body, for example, from the waist up.
		An android is a humanoid robot that closely resembles a human.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Humanoid_robot.html (149 words)

	Humanoid Robots
		A robot that has a visiual system but doesn't have any legs or even a body would be more beneficial, than a robot that couldn't see.
		While robots visual systems are nowhere near the accuracy of a humans', but only estimates with 3 to 5 degree accuracy are useful for social interactions.
		If the robot were to pay attention to every little movement, or color change it would be come a slave to every stimulus within its environment.
	www.iit.edu /~limdong/visual.html (271 words)

	Meet Kismet, the Robot Baby
		Named Kismet, the head is a robot that learns about its environment like a baby, depending almost entirely upon benevolent caregivers to help it find out about the world.
		Kismet is Cog's baby brother, and what the researchers learn while putting the robots together will be shared to speed up development.
		Kismet can thus let its "parents" know whether it needs more or less stimulation-an interactive process that the researchers hope will produce an intelligent robot that has some basic "understanding" of the world.
	www.robotbooks.com /kismet-robot.htm (703 words)

	Austin J Damiani -- A Synthetic Human: Kismet or Impossibility?
		Such anthropomorphic forms and understanding of robots raise the obvious question of at what point would a totally human-like robot cease to be an android and become a person and/or a human.
		While there may be explanations for female robots other than reliance on patriarchal divisions of labor, such as the desire on the part of researchers to allay fears of a misanthropic robot, the fact remains that ascribing gender to something that does not reproduce sexually serves no purpose to the robot, only to the creator.
		Breazeal prefaces her analysis of Kismet’s emotional processes with a brief discussion of the evolutionary perspective on the phenomenon of emotion in living organisms.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~dami0016/fall03/cscl3331-robots.htm (1974 words)

	Robots and Robotics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Artificial Intelligence - Science and Technology - New ...
		Kismet was the most expressive sociable robot built to that point, even though it consisted of only a hinged metal head on a heavy base, with wires and motors visible and eyes and lips stuck on almost like an afterthought.
		Robot consciousness is a tricky thing, according to Daniel Dennett, a Tufts philosopher and author of “Consciousness Explained,” who was part of a team of experts that Rodney Brooks assembled in the early 1990s to consult on the Cog project.
		Robot consciousness, it would seem, is related to two areas: robot learning (the ability to think, to reason, to create, to generalize, to improvise) and robot emotion (the ability to feel).
	www.nytimes.com /2007/07/29/magazine/29robots-t.html?ei=5090&en=5652d2be871256e0&ex=1343361600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1185696592-Rp597nYfQDAMWsmDp9N16A&pagewanted=print (6956 words)

	ElectricNews.net:News:Robot inspired by infant behaviour (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The robot, known as Kismet, is an artificial head that can interact with humans in a human-like way through various facial expressions, head positions and voice tones, according to MIT.
		Kismet is run by 15 computers which process software programs that enable the robot to perceive its environment, analyse what it finds and react, according to MIT.
		Kismet is intended to interact with humans in an intuitive and natural way, such as by backing away from an object placed too closely for its cameras to see properly, said Dr. Breazeal.
	www.electricnews.net /news.html?code=1174930 (540 words)

	Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to produce a rigorous and objective definition of consciousness, in a mathematical sense, and build a theory toward implementating it in a model or a cognitive architecture.
		The idea of producing an artificial sentient being is ancient and is featured in numerous myths such as the Golem, the Greek promethean myth, mechanical men in Chrétien de Troyes, and the creature in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein being examples.
		Artificial consciousness is an interesting philosophical problem because, with increased understanding of genetics, neuroscience and information processing, it may soon be possible to create a conscious entity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simulated_consciousness (3704 words)

	COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY: SHOWS
		Robotics theologian Anne Foerst, the author of the new book God in the Machine, offered commentary on some of the provocative issues that will arise with robotics in the years to come.
		As robots become increasingly sophisticated in future decades, she believes they eventually will reach a level where they could be considered "persons." Even with identical machines, their personalities would develop differently based on their unique experiences, she said.
		She suggested that robots may eventually be viewed as a "partner species" to humanity, and that they might generate completely fresh ideas that we never thought about.
	www.coasttocoastam.com /shows/2004/12/21.html (287 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		The robot uses two high-resolution cameras and a sound sensor to interact with a "care giver".
		Kismet is an attempt to model the learning processes of a baby, particularly the development of a proto-language, the babbling that is produced by a infant before it can manage real words.
		According to Breazeal, a robot that can actually learn a language in the same way as a baby is still many years off, but she hopes Kismet may develop its own proto-language.
	www.rense.com /ufo2/robot1.htm (625 words)

	FEED \| The Posthuman Condition: Ecce Robo
		This is her way of telling me that she does not have the half hour or so to boot up Kismet, the robot that's consumed her research days for the last three years.
		Kismet's goofy ears and Walter Keane eyes are already enough to trigger gooey feelings inside human beings, but the machine's resemblance to a budding mammal is more than cosmetic.
		The word kismet means fate, and that is how I choose to read the robot: as one more fractured augury of the cyborg subjectivity that we are booting up as we plunge towards an age of spiritual -- or at least psychological -- machines.
	www.techgnosis.com /robot.html (2686 words)

	A Feeling Robot? Must Be Kismet
		Livermore native Cynthia Breazeal, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is the mastermind behind a robot she named Kismet, which smiles, pouts, arches an eyebrow curiously or recoils in fear depending on the outside stimulus.
		She wired Kismet with three "drives" -- a social need to be around people; a stimulation drive to seek out toys; and a fatigue drive to rest.
		Kismet is like a needy baby, with big blue eyes, adorable red lips and a constant need for attention.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/05/CC69735.DTL&type=tech_article (943 words)

	AAAS - AAAS News Release
		Kismet is, however, a robot—a mechanical head that resides in a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Repeatedly, Picard cited the example of Kismet, a robot that's the project of Cynthia Breazeal, an assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences and director of the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab.
		Clearly, though, something more subtle is going on: By the mid-point of the lecture, the panelists were referring to Kismet not as a robot, not as "it," but as a "creature," as "he"—as a seemingly sentient creature with an emotional IQ that's remarkable for a machine.
	www.aaas.org /news/releases/2004/0528kismet.shtml (1020 words)

	In Pursuit of the Mechanical Man - Why make it look human?, Walk this way, Getting around, Sensory perception
		Robot soldiers in any form may be decades away, but that task is simple compared with the skills and efforts needed to produce a robot that could be mistaken for a real human.
		A convincing humanoid robot would have to walk, gesture, and maneuver as easily as a human, understand the spoken language, be able to communicate, and perhaps even be able to feel emotions and respond to feelings.
		Robotic hands are designed with special strain gauges that measure the amount of pressure needed to pick up an object and contact switches that simulate touch and grasping motions.
	www.scienceclarified.com /scitech/Artificial-Intelligence/In-Pursuit-of-the-Mechanical-Man.html (3439 words)

	10News.com - Technology - Robot Sex
		Building gender into robots might be a way for the robots’ designers to express their own playfulness and creativity.
		Her doctoral project “Kismet” was a disembodied robot head with incredibly expressive eyebrows, ears, and mouth.
		Now a professor at the MIT Media Lab, Breazeal and her students are working on Leonardo, an elaborate robot with more than 70 motors in its ears, eyes, face, neck, and arms—more emotional expressiveness than any robot or puppet that has ever been built.
	www.thesandiegochannel.com /technology/3282646/detail.html (1134 words)

	generation5 - An Introduction to Robotics
		Robotics, though, is not just about humanoid robots; but also about their commerical applications in manufacturing, safety and hundreds of other fields.
		Kismet is aimed at helping research robots and social interaction with human beings.
		Kismet has a dedicated 'trainer' that plays and interacts with Kismet, and watches his output (Kismet is controlled by a Pentium processor) on the monitor to gain a further understanding of the robots interal states.
	www.generation5.org /content/2000/robotics.asp (1117 words)

	Association for Women in Science
		Kismet's emotion processes play an important role in biasing attention and behavior and are beginning to play a critical role in socially situated learning (this work is in progress).
		Kismet's behaviors and their organization are designed so that Kismet exhibits those infant-like responses that most strongly encourage people to interact with it in a nurturing and social manner.
		Kismet is able to successfully negotiate the caregiver into presenting the robot with toys when it is bored and to engage in face-to-face exchange when it is lonely.
	www.serve.com /awis/v_wmagbreazeal.html (4051 words)

	Index - Kismet, a robot - Nyomtatható verzió
		Kismet elsősorban nem a robot-robot interakciót, hanem a robot és az ember közötti kommunikációt célozza.
		A “jellegzetességkivonatoló” rendszer a (komplex, dinamikus környezetként értelmezett) külvilág felől érkező, a robot viselkedése szempontjából fontos információkat válogatja ki, dolgozza fel.
		Brooks úgy gondolja, hogy a biológiai metaforák (“mesterséges immunrendszer”, “élethű robot”, stb.) noha közelítenek a valósághoz, valamit — ő se tudja pontosan, mit — mégis jócskán félreértelmeznek.
	www.index.hu /kultur/cyb/kismet/?print (658 words)

	MIT team building social robot - MIT News Office
		Kismet can then respond to such stimuli -- say move its head back if an object comes too close -- and communicate a number of emotion-like processes (such as happiness, fear and disgust).
		Kismet, she noted, is the exact opposite of Hal, the menacing robot in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
		Kismet is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2001/kismet.html (1128 words)

	smh.com.au - Technology
		Kismet's a robot - an anthropomorphic robotic head to be exact - made of metal, plastic, a lot of electrical wiring, a bank of 15 high-powered computers, 21 motors, four digital video cameras and a voice synthesiser.
		Kismet is a "social robot", able to react naturally to human vocal and visual input.
		Just as the mechanical side of robotics is gaining inspiration from human biology, a lot of the newest AI research looks at how mechanisms of early human childhood learning could apply to robots.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/02/1019441409713.html (1772 words)

	Cyberpunks.Org - Technology, Privacy, Security, and the Future
		Breazeal can keep this going, keep Kismet happy by paying constant attention to the robot as if it were an infant, which in a sense it is. She can, for example, pick up a toy stuffed dinosaur and begin playing with Kismet.
		At first she was fascinated by the robots being built by Rodney Brooks, an MIT professor and innovator in artificial intelligence.
		Because the nature of Kismet is ultimately to learn, to become more sophisticated, and to develop as a social creature, it is driven to engage people and to keep them engaged.
	www.cyberpunks.org /display/474/article (2462 words)

	Humanoid Robots
		Not a lot of development has gone into safety yet, mostly because at this point in research the robots are still operating in very controlled environments.
		But when it comes time for daily robot-human interaction, the robot must have some sort of sense of safety so it doesn't hurt itself, people or other robots.
		A robots safety feature should be tied with its visual system so that it can indentify objects that it needs to be careful around.
	www.iit.edu /~limdong/safety.html (160 words)

	2001: HAL's Legacy
		Because much of Kismet is motivated by this question of social development and is heavily inspired by infant social development it's not surprising that many of the robot's initial perceptual systems, behavioral systems, what are called proto-social responses, are taken from the developmental psychology literature.
		One way the robot does this is by giving you a number of social cues, through its face and body postures that lets me know when its ready for me to take a turn.
		Kismet has that ability to determine whether it is engaging things versus non-human things in a very simple way.
	www.2001halslegacy.com /interviews/braezeal.html (3523 words)

	Robots with social skills and a smile
		Cynthia L. Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for her robots, not just because they they are programmed to perform specific tasks, but because they seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions to the world around them.
		Kismet was started in 1997, and I intentionally created it to provoke the kind of interactions a human adult and a baby might have.
		Kismet's big triumph was that he was able to communicate a kind of emotion and sociability that humans did indeed respond to, in kind.
	www.temple.edu /ispr/examples/ex03_06_10.html (1458 words)

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