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An "Emotional Robot" Shows How It Feels -- and Is Creepily Convincing

This is a next-generation "emotional robot" named Nexi, who can move its body, hands, and face in a way that suggest human emotion. Created by world-famous roboticist Cynthia Breazeal's group at the MIT Media Lab, Nexi manages to be both weirdly cute and disturbingly emotive. Sure, she "emotes" in a cartoonish way, and yet you won't have any trouble recognizing the feelings she's trying to convey. [Suicide Bots]

7:00 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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