Nexi, a new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab, can show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms.

Created by a group headed by Media Lab’s Cynthia Breazeal, known for earlier expressive robots such as Kismet, the new robot is known as an MDS (mobile, dextrous, social) robot. Unlike Kismet, which consisted only of a robotic head, the Nexi MDS is a complete mobile manipulator robot augmented with rich expressive abilities.