1. Douglas Meadow 10.28.11 / 4pm

   This is particularly fascinating,especially for how the movement barrier of stairs, etc. was surmounted by making a robot that asks for help. Making the robot likeable enough for people to want to interact with is a great approach. I thought the G force data was an interesting way to measure how it was being treated, too.
2. Badr 10.29.11 / 10am

   I loved this poor robot
   Interesting to see symbiotic relationship between humans and robots .. I am quite surprised that there are some people who didn’t like the robot! .. people have some kindness for god sake
3. katie shelly 10.31.11 / 1pm

   i just love this lil guy! and his wacky voice!

   it reminds me a lot of this robot created at ITP.
4. admin 11.01.11 / 11am

   Boxie was voiced by Nan Wei Gong of the Responsive Environments group at the Media Lab.
5. Van Reeth Guy 11.04.11 / 7am

   It could be very nice to take such a robot when you go on vacation with friends or familly so you can have a customized film of the trip and some good souvenirs
6. Gurpreet Brar 11.13.11 / 11am

   Boxie is cute and adorable. I like the voice and the way it interacts with humans.
7. Boxie: el robot que captura historias | Pixel y Dixel 11.15.11 / 2am

   [...] protagoniza el último LabCast, el más que recomendable videopodcast del MIT Media [...]
8. Carolina Castro 11.21.11 / 12am

   What a cool project, and yes cuteness rocks for Boxie, what a lovely voice… I wanna meet her… Congrats to the people who create it.
9. techtings» Robot videojournalist uses cuteness to get vox pops 12.28.11 / 6pm

   [...] “The idea was to create a robot that was interesting enough for people to engage with it and offer to help it, carrying it around and up and down stairs to show it things,” says Reben, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. [...]
10. kross media » How Do You Make A Robot That People Will Talk To? Make It As Cute As Wall-E 01.03.12 / 12pm

    [...] when it comes to getting robots to interact well with humans. That’s the idea behind Boxie, a robot created by Alexander Reben at MIT Media Lab. Reben wanted to design a robot that could approach people and get them to answer interview [...]
11. Boxie, The Cute Robot – DesignBern - DBV6 01.04.12 / 8am

    [...] that could approach people and get them to answer interview questions on camera. For more on the subject. Or read the fastcode [...]
12. Christian White 01.05.12 / 12pm

    Boxie is adorably cute, kind, sympathetic, compassionate, smart, curious, and fun!!!
13. Andrew 01.05.12 / 10pm

    The outcome of simplicity is an interesting result and would love to read the paper when it is published. Are there plans to release Boxie as a programmable kit?
14. Cute « Writer's Rest 01.11.12 / 6am

    [...] can see a video of Boxie in action here. Trust me: You do want to see this video. Share [...]
15. Boxie is an adorable toddler videographer - Hack a Day 01.12.12 / 5pm

    [...] Meet Boxie. He’s a robot videographer with levels of interaction we haven’t seen outside an episode of Dora the Explorer. The project was conceived by [Alex] as his MIT thesis project to see if robots can use humans to make themselves more useful. All we know is Boxie is freaking adorable, as evidenced by this video. [...]
16. hpux735 01.12.12 / 6pm

    That is very neat. I love that the robot was intentionally made simple-looking. Avoiding the “uncanny valley” was a very wise choice. Unfortunately, the audio queues suffer, a bit, from that effect. Also, I love the results with acceleration values correlated with whether the user liked the robot!
17. Boxie, un Cineasta en Apuros | Robotikka 01.16.12 / 1am

    [...] LabCAST – The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast » Archive » #57 Boxie [...]
18. MIT’s Exploratory Cute Robot Boxie | Salty Sea Dog -Searching for a bit of Arrgh and Arrgh between scenes 01.20.12 / 12am

    [...] is a project of the responsive environments group at the MIT media lab. Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories [...]
19. yash gopal mittal 04.15.12 / 5am

    i wonder what else you all people can do..
    relly great ideas……
20. Here comes cuteness | butscherNet 04.27.12 / 9am

    [...] “The idea was to create a robot that was interesting enough for people to engage with it,” says Alexander Reben, who developed Boxie at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. [...]
21. allainah 07.30.12 / 8am

    this is really great!! I LOVE IT but me and my sister want to know how to actually make the robot it would be even cooler if u added some instructions!:)
22. Robotics in Photography. 08.14.12 / 7am

    [...] social research, there is Boxie, a mobile robotic cam­era to gath­ers infor­ma­tion about its envi­ron­ment inter­ac­tively [...]

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