The Huggable Robot

This is probably the most expensive teddy bear ever built.

The folks at MIT’s Personal Rbotics group have created a huggable robot with over 1500 sensors, mostly under it’s skin.  It also has web cameras for eyes, microphones for ears and a speaker for a mouth.

The Hugggable was originally based on the idea of companian animals, but has taken the idea much further, including a web component that allows one to interact with others through the bear via the internet.
Video after the break.

Link via (Physorg)