Human-robot interaction

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Human-robot interaction is the study of interactions between humans and robots. It is often referred as HRI by researchers. Human-Robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language understanding, and social sciences.

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The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities

The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 6 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does your robot seem to be acting a bit neurotic? Maybe it's just their personality. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a ...


Human-like robot smiles, scolds in Japan classroom

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors.


Robot on Command

Wag the Robot? Brown scientists build robot that responds to human gestures

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a day when you turn to your own personal robot, give it a task and then sit down and relax, confident that your robot is doing exactly what you wanted it to do.


Robots that monitor emotions of ASD children

Robots that monitor emotions of ASD children

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system that allows a robot to monitor ...





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No mere pipe dream

No mere pipe dream

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI engineers are working on robotic technology to rehabilitate the nation's aging water infrastructure.


International Space Station

Node-3 and Cupola: European technology to complete the ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched at 10:14:08 CET today and is heading for the International Space Station carrying two sophisticated European modules: Node-3 (Tranquility) and Cupola. ...


Big book explores a small world: Stuart Lindsay's guide to nanoscience

Big book explores a small world: Professor debuts first complete guide to nanoscience

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world ...


Robonaut 2: NASA, GM Create Cutting Edge Robotic Technology

Robonaut 2: NASA, GM Create Cutting Edge Robotic Technology

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robonaut is evolving. NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace ...


Engineers explore environmental concerns of nanotechnology

Engineers explore environmental concerns of nanotechnology

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As researchers around the world hasten to employ nanotechnology to improve production methods for applications that range from manufacturing materials to creating new pharmaceutical drugs, a separate but equally ...


The art of controlling a robot

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robots are used in many different areas, for instance in factories, in space and in health care. To plan and control the motions of a robot is a challenging task, which Uwe Mettin from Umeľ University, Sweden, has analyzed ...


Antibiotic found to protect hearing in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A type of antibiotic that can cause hearing loss in people has been found to paradoxically protect the ears when given in extended low doses in very young mice.


Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago

Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- The last Neanderthals in Europe died out at least 37,000 years ago - and both climate change and interaction with modern humans could be involved in their demise, according to new research ...


Managing ecosystems in a changing climate

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Global warming may impair the ability of ecosystems to perform vital services—such as providing food, clean water and carbon sequestration—says the nation's largest organization of ecological scientists. In a statement released ...


Computer science researcher hopes to stall malware threat by tracking human use behaviors

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Danfeng Yao, an assistant professor in the computer science department at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, will use a $530,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to develop ...



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