Leonardo Robot

Posted on March 20, 2010 in Robotics by dulce303

Leonardo is a robot developed by Professor Cynthia Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab in conjunction with Stan Winston Studio and DARPA. Leonardo is an adorable AI robot that learns from facial cues and voice inflections. He’s also interactive, though he’s not mobile yet, he can gesture with his arms and fingers, and he has very expressive facial features. Leonardo is the brainchild of Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, an amazingly smart, talented and beautiful roboticist. Leo is a labor of love for Cynthia, and it shows in the child like quality of this lovable companion robot’s personality and behavior. This furry andriod represents the future of child teddy bears just like “Teddy” did in the movie AI, which was produced by Stan Winston Studio for Steven Spielberg in 2001.