And so that year, I started to build this robot, Kismet, the world's first social robot.

And I want to actually use a robot here a robot named Chris stand up. Yeah. Okay.

I talked about the large, complicated robot.

Then I was so happy that I kept playing with the robot, and so you see the robot has a front rudder here.

I call the new robot RiSE, for Robot in Scansorial Environment that's a climbing environment and we have an extraordinary team of biologists and engineers creating this robot.

How could I be a robot? Robots don't dream.

I would not let an adult drive my robot.

How could I be a robot? Robots can't dream.

This robot is an amoeba robot.

Now, this robot is currently our star robot.

No, it's a little robot on heroin or something, I think.

The second robot I want to talk about is called IMPASS.

I don't want to create a perfect object like a perfect robot.

So when we have a robot which is surrounded by neighbors and let's look at robot I and robot J what we want the robots to do is to monitor the separation between them as they fly in formation.

And when I was dealing with my robot over here, Chris, the robot, was measuring the prosody in my voice, and so we have the robot measure prosody for four basic messages that mothers give their children pre linguistically.

Here we've got naive subjects praising the robot Voice Nice robot.

I actually have no idea what my robot is going to do today.

This robot is called CLIMBeR Cable suspended Limbed Intelligent Matching Behavior Robot.

You may have wondered what happens if I give the robot a little push.

Robot Oh, cool.

We actually have a fan club for the robot, DARwIn Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence.

And inside it's got an 800 pound robot arm that I borrowed, from a friend.

But I can tell you, the thing that they love the most is the robot.

Our work has also inspired another robot, a biologically inspired bouncing robot, from the University of Michigan and McGill named RHex, for robot hexapod, and this one's autonomous.

It's just a robot.

Are you a robot?

Good robot, that's good.

Guido van Robot NG

He made a robot.

Tom is a robot.

Probably not. So, why do I call this a biologically inspired robot? How would it work?

I mean, thousands of dollars, lots of man hours made to make this eight foot robot.

We got a bunch of naive subjects in, we didn't tell them anything about the robot, sat them down in front of the robot and said, talk to the robot.

HK He's a French robot.

So this robot minimizes snap.

Here is the actual robot.

Credit cards, robot vacuum cleaners.

This is another robot, Cog.

This is a robot, Autom.

Before that has to come to be a mildly bad robot, and before that a not so bad robot.

And also I can use each one of you as the acting coach to our future robot companions.

He designed the robot as the cashier, and the head moves, and I did the rest of it.

And it's this amazing robot that plays chess extremely well, except for one thing it's not a robot at all.

You're such a cute little robot.

All right, there's that robot again.