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Developing robots with social skills and understanding is a critical step towards enabling them to cooperate with human as capable partners, to communicate with human intuitively, and to learn quickly and effectively from natural human instruction. These abilities would enable many new and exciting applications for robots that require them to play a long-term, supportive, and helpful role in humans' daily lives. zombie::labs aims towards building sociable autonomous robots that can work in collaboration with people.

What makes a toy compelling? Why will children talk to their toys for hours on end? Why do adults talk to their computers or even their cars? How do we know how to behave when we meet someone new or are in a new situation? These are the questions that we are trying to answer through our research in human-robot interaction. One of the main goals is to understand how people interact with a robot and then know what the social cues that the robot must give to make this interaction interesting.