Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute is home to Professor Illah Nourbakhsh's cutting-edge Human-Robotic Interaction class, in which every student builds and tests a functioning interactive robot. The Minglebot is a robot designed to make friends and influence people. For my team's project, we chose the ambitious goal of designing a robot that would cause a building full of strangers to become friends with one another. The result was possibly the cutest, most lovable little robot ever made. It played checkers with its targets as a front for matching them with potential friends.		The bear would then suggest meetings between people sharing similar interests. In this way, it was designed to become a gossiping matchmaker of friends, and a fixture in the lobby of its assigned building. This robot is featured on the website of the TeRK Telepresence Robot Kit. During and after the project I maintained and later redesigned the Minglebot website. This site's design is also featured on this site. jackbeaton at gmail.com | 717.404.5782
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