Kismet is a robot that mimics the human head, created by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1990s as part of an experiment to see if machines could recognize and mimic human emotions. The word Kismet comes from a Turkish word meaning "fate" or "good luck.

Kismet is an autonomous robot designed for social interaction with humans. In general, social robotics has focused on groups of robots, such as swarming, foraging or dispersing, or pairs of robots interacting with robots, such as mimicking.

The focus of this project is not on robot-robot interactions, but on building robots that engage in meaningful social interaction with humans. In doing so, it is possible for a socially sophisticated human to help the robot acquire more complex communication skills and to help it understand what these behaviors mean to other people. Our approach is inspired by the way infants learn to communicate with adults. Specifically, the model of social interaction is one of babysitting, in which humans act as caretakers for the robot.

Kismet is actually one such humanoid robot, with visual, auditory, and tactile inputs, and positional sensing. He can then interact with people through dialog, facial expressions, and body gestures.

Kismet's appearance is also very cute, the whole image is still very cartoon feeling, also should be very popular with the children's favorite Oh. Curved eyebrows, big eyes and ears, and mouth, but no nose, if you add a smell recognition sensor, you can also have a flavor recognition function Oh, I think, odor recognition is also a lot of use, such as liquefied petroleum gas and hazardous substances alarm, etc., so that he can be the first time to pass the information to us.