“People often communicate through touch，so they might pat Jibo if it does something that they

　　like and Jibo can actually learn from that，” said Breazeal.

　　Doctors at Amici di Nico Autism Center，in

　　Lecce，Italy，use a small talking robot to treat autistic

　　(孤独症) children.

　　11year-old

　　Marco

　　has

　　shown

　　great

　　improvement in focusing and communication since he started playing with the robot that carefully keeps track of the child's behavior，said engineer Giuseppe Palestra.

　　“We would like to be one step ahead of state of the art，so that we can make the human－robot

　　interaction better，” said Palestra.

　　Researchers say they want to develop robots that can be programmed for individual patients，because each child reacts differently to outside

　　information.

　　French researcher Pierre Lebeau's family robot

　　Keecker was designed as an entertainment robot that can follow its owner around.

　　“I came up with the idea of a computer with a

　　projector (投影仪) inside and a great sound system

　　and a camera，something that can move and go to

　　any room to give me a kind of TV－like experience，but anywhere I want without the cables(电缆)，”said

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