Education · Design-led
MIT Cognimates
Giving AI a face children can read.
- Illustration
- Character Design
- Branding
Cognimates teaches children aged 7–14 about artificial intelligence. Working with MIT researcher Stefania Druga, we designed Nary, iBall, and Ninjat, three characters with expressions and movement a child can understand before they can explain the technology behind them.
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The images do the talking. Swipe or drag.
How do you explain artificial intelligence to a seven-year-old?
We imagined six characters. Three survived.
Meet Nary, iBall and Ninjat.
A character is only alive once it moves.
Anger, happiness, joy, curiosity. A feeling a child can name.
From sketch to something that looks back at you.
In classrooms, with MIT researcher Stefania Druga.