MIT Researchers Showcase Breakthrough Technologies at SIGGRAPH
From: Business Wire - 07/27/2006

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present three
items at the exhibition. Walter Dan Stiehl will give a presentation entitled
"The Huggable: A Therapeutic Robotic Companion for Relational, Affective
Touch," a robotic companion developed around research in pet therapy that
features a complete sense of touch, voice-coil actuators, and a built-in PC
that enables the robot to communicate with the staff of a hospital or nursing
home. 

MIT's Angela Chang will present "Tangibles at Play," which blends art,
design, and education to explore the way that humans understand information
with their hands and peripheral senses. 

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Links:
Huggable
http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/Huggable.shtml
http://robotic.media.mit.edu/

Angela Chang
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/people/angela.php

Tangible Bits
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/