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Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

Summary:

            The video that I want to introduce to you today is called ‘’The rise of personal robots’’. In the video, there is a presentation of Cynthia Breazeal about her ambtion of developing robots that can be interacted like humans. First, Cynthia in her presentation said that she had been dreaming since she had been a little about the new generations of robots that could interact with humans in deeper ways. She the mentions about making social intelligience robots can be a great innovation in both our technology and society. Therefore, her team has made the first social robot named Kismect. It  was a robot that could interact with human by non-verbal emotions can not speak language. However, it had opened a new hopeful way of developing social interactive robots. Second, Cynthia Breazeal stated about the benefits that those robots can bring to us. The first benefit is in term of communication: the ‘’ robot +phones’’ (phones that have legs and hands like robots) so that we can talk with other people by eye contact or moving around and making gestures. The second benefit is that those interactive robots can improve our family’s relationship. Cynthia suggested one example that nowsadays, the relationships between grandparents and grandchildren are not good and close since the grandparents usually live far way from their grandchildren. Therefore, with interactive robots, grandparents now can play with their grandchildren from afar and the chidlren also like it a lot. The third benefit that those kinds of robots can provide to us is that they can assist us in maintanning our health. They will help us in organize our schedules, tracking our exercising progress and motivating also. The other benefit of interactive robots is in children’s media. Kids nowadays spending much time before the screen so if interactive robots are used with the video games so that chidren can experience real play and improve their imagination.

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 Response:

I’ve been dreaming of having a personal robots since I was a child. Therefore, I really understand and support Cynthia Breazeal’s opinion. I think if we have interactive robots in every home, it wil be very fanstatic. Social robots can be be our friends like cats or dogs but more that that they can express their emotions in human-like way. Moreover, I also the idea Cynthia that we can use interactive robots to strengthen the relationship beetween family’s members.Nowadays, some family whose members do not have chance or conditions to be close toghether, so it will be a good way to solve that problems. Next, using interactive robots to create real media play experiences for children is also a good idea becasue the kids can interact with the robots in a lively way. However, in my opinion, the idea that having personal robots still has the downside. Using robots to help improving family’s relationship is necessary but nothing can replace the reltionshop buitt from direct meeting instead of communicating over robots. And it is the same to applying those robots for kids’ media, I think children can also learn a lot from the real outside world which is also beautiful and 100% lively.

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