Lijin Aryananda has graduated from CSAIL, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. While earning her Ph.D at MIT Aryananda created a friend name Mertz. This friendly robot has a vocabulary of 40 words to engage passerby in conversation. If Mertz cannot understand you, it will ask you to speak louder or move closer. Arayanada has moved on to the greener pastures of Switzerland, but leaves Mertz behind. Hopefully one can see Mertz if visiting CSAIL at MIT. Check out the full article here.See more about robots at MIT here. Or see our recent post about Domo.