Our company is built on the years of human-robot interaction research conducted by our founder and CEO Cory D. Kidd, Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab. Some of his early studies directly compared the effects of interacting with a robot versus an animated character on the screen. These studies showed that people were more engaged by a robot and when the got information from a robot or an animated character, consistently found a robot to be more informative and more credible.
For more information about the research that inspires our products, including academic papers and theses, please see the MIT Media Lab site of founder and CEO Cory D. Kidd, Ph.D..
Cory D. Kidd, Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab
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