Professor Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots group, received the MassRobotics 2024 Robotics Medal at the IEEE ICRA@40 conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This award recognizes woman-identifying, researcher-nominated professors in robotics and comes with a $50,000 prize. Cynthia was honored for her significant contributions in establishing the field of social robotics and human-robot interaction.

MassRobotics is the largest independent robotics hub dedicated to accelerating innovation and adoption in the field of robotics. Sponsored by Amazon Robotics, this was the second annual MassRobotics Robotics Medal award. A gala celebrating the recipients will be held in Boston at the MIT Samberg Conference Center on October 26, 2024.