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MIT's AIDA: The Friendly GPS Robot for Your Dashboard

by Amar Toor on November 1, 2009 at 08:30 AM


Ever wish your GPS system could be something more than just a bodiless voice? Ever wished you had a pretty face to associate with that mellifluous, alluring car voice? Thanks to scientists at MIT, you might soon be able to entertain all your wildest robot fantasies.

AIDA, short for Affective Intelligent Driving Agent, is like a GPS-fueled Wall-E-meets-personal-assistant, a nifty little robot that can not only help you find the fastest route home, but can also learn your favorite after work activities, alert you when you're running out of gas, and adjust its directions to traffic conditions. The best part, though? It has a head that pops out of your dashboard. And it can smile. If you're nice, it'll even wink.

We know that the daily commute can get lonely, so we can see how it'd be nice to have a smiling, winking face staring back at you at 8 a.m. every day. But until it can start satisfying some of our most basic human needs, we'll probably hold off on having an anthropomorphic KITT as our co-pilot. [From: DVICE]

Tags: AIDA, gps, mit, navigation, research, robot, top

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