Let This Robot Teach You How To Be Less Awkward

MIT builds a virtual person to help people practice talking to other people, which already sounds like an awkward situation. If you think you're awkward in social situations, and would like the solution to that problem to be as awkward possible, try this: have a robot coach you on how to interact with human beings. The software/robocoach is called MACH (My Automated Conversation coacH). Besides a digital face, the MIT-developed MACH has speech- and face-recognition tools, allowing it to pick up ...