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Cynthia Breazeal is one of MIT ’ s leading computer science professors , and she has been an Associate Professor at the worldfamous institution for over 20 years . She founded ( and continues to direct ) the institution ’ s Personal Robots group and is the Director of its Initiative on Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education .

Breazeal is renowned across the industry for her pioneering work in social robotics . Within her wider work , she focuses on the question of “ living with AI ”. To this aim , she is leading the industry ’ s knowledge in the long-term impact that social robots will have and the place that they can have in our daily lives .

In harmony with her research and academic background , Breazeal is also the Founder and Chief Scientist of Jibo . Jibo is a companion robot that strives “ to foster a secure , supportive and exciting space in social AI companionship ”.

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