Cynthia Breazeal

When most people imagined robots as cold machines, Cynthia Breazeal envisioned something radically different: social robots that could interact meaningfully with humans. As a pioneering professor at MIT's Media Lab and founder of Jibo, Inc.

, she has transformed how we understand human-robot interaction. Her Personal Robotics Group represents the cutting edge of social robotics research, developing intelligent systems that can communicate, learn, and engage in genuinely interactive ways.

By bridging computer science, cognitive psychology, and design, Breazeal is creating technologies that could revolutionize everything from healthcare to education.