Thenew inventionof MIT researchers is theAffective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA), which represents anin-car personal robot. With their new invention scientists hope to change the usual way drivers interact with their vehicles. To develop the robot, a group of researchers from thePersonal Robots Group at the MIT Media Labteamed up with MIT'sSENSEable City Laband theVolkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab.The goal of researchers was to create a personalassistant that would learn about a driver's behavior in an environment and offer suggestions according to the collected data. According to Professor Carlo Ratti, director of theSENSEable City Lab, they wanted to create a system able to provide information like an"informed and friendly companion."The new system interacts with the driver via a small robot incorporated in the car's dashboard.
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