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The Cog Project was an exploration of the idea that human-like intelligence requires human-like interactions with the world [1]. Starting in the summer of 1993, Cog was one of the first humanoid projects in the United States and was a departure from many of the traditional methods promoted by artificial intelligence research at the time. Perhaps the most substantial impact of Cog was an invigorated interest in social and cognitive skills, a legacy that lead to the rapidly developing subfields of social robotics and human-robot interaction that are active today.

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  1. Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yale University, 51 Prospect Street, 208285, New Haven, CT, 06520-8285, USA

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  1. Intuitive Surgical , Sunnyvale, California, USA

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Scassellati, B. (2017). MIT Cog. In: Goswami, A., Vadakkepat, P. (eds) Humanoid Robotics: A Reference. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7194-9_10-1

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