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Robot playmates may help children with autism

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Papers delivered at three conferences in the US and Europe this summer report on new research at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering studying interactions of children with Autism ...





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Scientists study robot-human interactions

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 30, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

British scientists are studying how people interact with robots to determine what future machines should look like and how they should behave.


People surround the battery-powered underwater glider "Scarlet Knight" after its arrival at the port of Baiona

Robot completes first underwater crossing of Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Spain on Wednesday handed back to the United States a robot which last week completed the first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to help monitor climate change by tracking temperatures.


Do we think that machines can think?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

When our PC goes on strike again we tend to curse it as if it was a human. The question of why and under what circumstances we attribute human-like properties to machines and how such processes manifest on a cortical level ...


Supermarket robot to help the elderly

Supermarket robot to help the elderly (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robovie-II, a retail-assistant robot designed to help elderly and disabled people shop in supermarkets, is being tested in Kyoto, in Japan.


Predictive powers: a robot that reads your intention? (w/Video)

Predictive powers: a robot that reads your intention? (w/Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions ...


"Walky" Project (Keio University in Tokyo)

iPhone Software That Controls Robot Movements (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the graduate school of media design at Keio University in Tokyo, a project called "Walky" is under developed. Researchers have developed specifically designed software for the iPhone that ...


'What can I, Robot, do with that?'

'What can I, Robot, do with that?'

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 21, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A new approach to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to a revolution in the field by shifting the focus from what a thing is to how it can be used.


Robot Learning

'The robots are coming'

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot's long and shiny arms to a visitor. Here, they said, swing it around.


Robots to help children to form relationships

Technology / Other

created May 29, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A project which is using robots to help children with developmental or cognitive impairments to interact more effectively has just started at the University of Hertfordshire.


Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.



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