Selected Media Coverage

Announcement of Center for Future Banking. MIT News Office, March 31, 2008.

Self-Experimenters: Can 200,000 Hour of Baby Talk Until a Robot's Tongue? Scientific American, March 17, 2008.

Science of Babies. National Geographic Channel, Sept 19, 2007.

Searching Sportscasts. Technology Review, June 2007.

The Power of Babble. WIRED Magazine, April 2007.

Virtual dining provides tips for cyber characters. New Scientist, March 25, 2007.

The Inner World of Ripley the Robot. NPR Radio, July 10, 2006.

Baby's First Petabyte. PC Magazine, June 21, 2006.

Pioneers. Science Magazine, June 16, 2006. 

'Big brother' informs baby talk. BBC News, May 17, 2006.

Watch language grow in the 'Baby Brother' house. New Scientist, May 15, 2006.

Five paths to the walking, talking, pie-baking humanoid robot. Popular Science, 2006.

Bring on the Robot Monkey Butler: The present and future of robotic research. CBC Radio, June 11, 2005.

Robots on Display. Time for Kids, June 9, 2005. (The featured robot, Dagane, is our robot Ripley in disguise)

Robot Pals. Scientific American Frontiers, April 13, 2005. 

I, Robot -- By Baby Steps. Globe and Mail, March 23, 2003.