Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the future of robots interact, a synthetic creature and not just a sophisticated tool. Because the most successful friendly robot will share our social characteristics, efforts to make robots interact also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. Breazeal defines the key components of social intelligence to machines and offers a framework and set of design issues for their realization. Much of this book focuses on a new friendly robot she designed named Kismet born.