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Kismet
Kismet
Last updated: September 1, 2026
Locomotion Type
Hybrid
Stage
Demo
Height
38 cm
Degrees of Freedom
21 DOF
Weight
7 kg
Release Year
1997
Kismet is a pioneering affective social robot head developed at MIT AI Lab by Cynthia Breazeal in the late 1990s. It expresses emotions through facial features (eyes, eyebrows, ears, mouth) and vocalizations, driven by an architecture modeling drives and emotions, and is a landmark platform in social robotics.
Application Scenarios
Social robotics, human-robot interaction and affective computing research.
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