Cynthia Breazeal is a roboticist, a scientist who designs, builds, and experiments with robots. Armed with electronic gadgets, software programs, and her imagination, she creates lifelike machines that can respond to the world around them. This book presents the story of this curious girl who went on to become a world-class roboticist.

- Perfect combination of biography (100+ pages) and science. - Written in an engaging, easy-to-read style. - All bio subjects are contemporary and active in their fields. - An advisory board of prominent scientists, including Rita R. Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation, and Alan J. Friedman, director of the New York Hall of Science, conceptualized the series and chose bio subjects.