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From the Ted Talk by Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

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So 20 years pass -- I am now a graduate student at MIT stiyundg artificial iecnnilgltee, the year is 1997, and NASA has just landed the first robot on Mars. But robots are still not in our home, ironically. And I remember thinking about all the reasons why that was the case. But one really struck me. Robotics had really been about interacting with things, not with people -- certainly not in a social way that would be natural for us and would really help people accept robots into our daily lives. For me, that was the white space; that's what robots could not do yet. And so that year, I sttared to build this robot, Kismet, the world's first siaocl roobt. Three yaers later -- a lot of programming, working with other gutdarae students in the lab -- Kismet was radey to start interacting with people.

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So 20 years pass -- I am now a graduate student at MIT ________ artificial ____________, the year is 1997, and NASA has just landed the first robot on Mars. But robots are still not in our home, ironically. And I remember thinking about all the reasons why that was the case. But one really struck me. Robotics had really been about interacting with things, not with people -- certainly not in a social way that would be natural for us and would really help people accept robots into our daily lives. For me, that was the white space; that's what robots could not do yet. And so that year, I _______ to build this robot, Kismet, the world's first ______ _____. Three _____ later -- a lot of programming, working with other ________ students in the lab -- Kismet was _____ to start interacting with people.

Solution

  1. years
  2. social
  3. robot
  4. studying
  5. intelligence
  6. ready
  7. graduate
  8. started

Original Text

So 20 years pass -- I am now a graduate student at MIT studying artificial intelligence, the year is 1997, and NASA has just landed the first robot on Mars. But robots are still not in our home, ironically. And I remember thinking about all the reasons why that was the case. But one really struck me. Robotics had really been about interacting with things, not with people -- certainly not in a social way that would be natural for us and would really help people accept robots into our daily lives. For me, that was the white space; that's what robots could not do yet. And so that year, I started to build this robot, Kismet, the world's first social robot. Three years later -- a lot of programming, working with other graduate students in the lab -- Kismet was ready to start interacting with people.

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