Aida — or, to use the proper styling, Ai-Da; a portmanteau of A.I. and the name Ada, borrowed from the world’s first computer programmer — is a humanoid robot. It (or she?) is also a painter ...

In other words, AIDA is like your highway helper. A robot pal you can bond with on those long lonely trips. Kind of like a naggy, whiny version of Kitt.

Aida communicates with the driver through an expressive robot screen and will even appear sympathetic if you're having a bad day. Cynthia Breazeal, director of MIT's Personal Robots Group, said ...

Aida looks a bit like Johnny 5 from the film Short Circuit, or perhaps Wall-E. Siegel sees something else. "I think it's more like Eve," he said, referring to Wall-E's love interest.

An image of AIDA on the dashboard of a car Researchers and designers at MIT are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) – a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the ...

The AIDA system is a lot like Nissan's Pivo robot-car concept shown off at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, with a similarly cute and quirky robotic assistant inside.

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A robot artist called Ai-Da will get its first major exhibition at London’s Design Museum this summer. But is the humanoid truly creative? Ai-Da’s works are based on photos taken by cameras in ...

One idea behind a "cyborg life" is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun ...

Meet AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent), a robot that will not only keep an eye on how and where you are going, but also avoid traffic jams and give driving tips to help you be more energy ...