The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) is a robot head that mounts on your dashboard and attempts to help you with navigation. AIDA is a collaboration between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots Group of Media Lab). Crave writes that AIDA "incorporates an expressive 'face' that can smile, look sad, show warning signs, and even wink at you." That sounds like it could be a little distracting to have a cute face looking at you while you drive but AIDA's purpose is to help you. Warning signs appear right on the robot's head as you can see in the image on the right. AIDA's intelligence also learns about your driving habits and builds knowledge about them over time. Take a look:
The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) is a robot head that mounts on your dashboard and attempts to help you with navigation. AIDA is a collaboration between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots Group of Media Lab). Crave 
