Dr. Heather Knight

Assisted by her pint-sized robot comedian, Heather Knight will lead you through a crash course of social robotics. From call centers to mobile robots, we have emotional reactions and apply social conventions to machines. By adapting strategies from physical theater, Knight researches how robots can communicate nonverbally, identifying motion characteristics and behaviors that non-anthropomorphic robots can use to interact with us successfully and charismatically. Knight and ?Data? offer a one-of-a-kind robot-human interaction that is both humorous and engaging.