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MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab."With the ubiquity of sensors and mobile computers, information about our surroundings is ever abundant. AIDA embodies a new effort to make sense...

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science WriterWASHINGTON - George the robot is playing hide-and-seek with scientist Alan Schultz. George whirrs and hides behind a post until he's found. Then a bit later, he hunts for and finds Schultz hiding.If that sounds childish, consider that Schultz is working his way up to teaching the robot to play Capture the Flag.What's so impressive about robots playing children's games?For a robot to actually find a place to hide, and then hunt for its human playmate is a...