When NASA's Sojourner rover landed on Mars in 1997, Cynthia Breazeal remembers thinking, "We can send robots to space, but we still don't have ones that can 'live' beside us." What's up with that? She set out to find the answer, and in the process, pioneered the field of social robotics. This spring, Breazeal will begin shipping Jibo, the world's first companion bot for the home, and the pinnacle of her 18-year endeavor. Breazeal recently spoke to Popular Science about how robots will become family members, guarding the home, and reading us bedtime stories.
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