NOVA scienceNOW Profile: Cynthia Breazeal
A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do. Details
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Cynthia Breazeal: Expert Q
Cynthia Breazeal answers questions about her life, her sociable robots, and more.
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Friendly Robots
Engineer Cynthia Breazeal talks about some of her favorite non-human companions.
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The Ape That Teaches
Why is our ability to teach so critical and so complicated? MIT's Rebecca Saxe explains.
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The Gap Between Humans and Apes
Recent brain imaging research is offering new insights.
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