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SUPER WOMEN
They smash atoms, save endangered apes, and protect the planet.
By Josie Glausiusz
As a child, Cynthia Breazeal fell in love with a robot. As an engineering student at MIT, she built one. The first robot was a fantasy—Star Wars' R2-D2—but the second was real: a talking head named Kismet that interacted with humans like a baby. Breazeal's creation—which could smile, babble, and sneer—later earned her a spot as a consultant to Steven Spielberg on the 2001 movie AI: Artificial Intelligence.
