Robotics: The Android Dreams Special Session
https://www.siggraph.org/conferences/REPORTS/s2003/articles/robotics.html

The session included presentations by Stan Winston (Stan Winston Studio), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media Lab), Robert Ambrose (NASA Johnson Space Center), Helen Greiner (iRobot Corporation), and Masahiro Fujita (Sony Digital Creatures Lab). The presentations presented an overview of several robotics projects, though not necessarily of the entire state of field of autonomous robotic systems.

This understanding of organic design is what led Cynthia Breazeal, the second speaker, to contact Stan and initiate the collaboration, which has resulted in a new robot named Leonardo. Cynthia opened her talk by detailing some of the cognitive models that underlie her work and the development of Emotional Artificial Intelligence. She showed how these techniques were applied to the robot Kismit and how people react to robots gestures (e.g., frowning) even when the robots are communicating in sounds and not an understandable language.