Moxie: How This AI Robot Is Designed To Teach Kids Emotional Intelligence

Forbes February 18, 2024
Bruce Y. Lee

When you first talk to Moxie, this artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot may let out a big yawn, stretching out its robot arms in the process. It’s not because you are boring. It’s not because the robot really needs to increase blood flow throughout its body. No, yawning is just what young kids may do when you wake them from sleep. So, a yawn makes sense since Embodied, Inc. has been trying to make Moxie as life-like as possible to serve as a companion for kids.

This small robot from Embodied is the literal embodiment of what’s been a longtime passion project for Paolo Pirjanian, PhD, the CEO and Founder of Embodied: to develop a robot with emotional intelligence that can...

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