I’ve found Cynthia Breazeal’s robotics research both interesting and theologically provocative, and I’ve referred to her book “Designing Sociable Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)” in several places in the thesis.

PBS is running a profile on her on their scienceNOW web site (including video later this week). Links there to various slideshows, articles etc. See NOVA | scienceNOW | Profile: Cynthia Breazeal | PBS.

Related links:

Cynthia Breazeal’s home page at MIT Media Lab.
Greenflame: God In The Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity And God
Robotic Life – sociable robots
Kismet (robot)