Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal is an American AI and robotics scientist and entrepreneur. She is a pioneer of social robotics and human-robot interaction. She is the former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed companion robots for the family at home. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, dean for digital learning at MIT Open Learning, and director of the [https://raise.mit.edu MIT RAISE Initiative]. Her work has explored the theme of living everyday life in the presence of AI and, in recent years, has been a leader in AI literacy for youth. Provided by Wikipedia