Deb Roy: Talking Like a Human

Deb Roy directs MIT Media Lab's Cognitive Machines group…and suffice it to say that he takes his home work with him.

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Deb Roy

Deb Roy has been building robots since the age of six. At first they were just cosmetic, primitive beings constructed from a young boy's imagination. Later, they would become complicated, entrusted with robot 'brains' that listen and recognize how words relate to one another and to the external world.

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