News tagged with verbal command

Remote control pushed aside by gesture-sensitive devices

The remote control has never been much beloved. If it's not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device - and its inscrutable buttons - is confusing some family member or acting as a totem in an argument about what ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

(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.

Electronics / Robotics

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




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Google will put Majel on the line to rival Siri

(PhysOrg.com) -- Majel is Google’s voice controlled assistant in the wings and it is poised to compete against Apple’s iPhone 4S-based Siri. The new chatter surrounding the yet to be launched Majel ...

Technology / Software

created Dec 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast weblog

Robots in reality

Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that’s been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point of entry, the scout carefully navigates ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Researchers say liars can't completely suppress facial expressions

Mark Frank has spent two decades studying the faces of people lying when in high-stakes situations and has good news for security experts.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Canine telepathy? Study explores how dogs think and learn about human behavior

Can dogs read our minds? How do they learn to beg for food or behave badly primarily when we're not looking? According to Monique Udell and her team, from the University of Florida in the US, the way that dogs come to respond ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Technology companies vie to bring Web to cars

As drivers grow unwilling to unplug from the connected world during their jaunts across town, technology firms are racing to bring the Web into the car.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Giffords opens eyes, begins physical therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doctors expect to remove Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' breathing tube in the next few days. "Everybody is making fantastic progress," UMC trauma director Dr. Peter Rhee said.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10

Doctor: Giffords breathing on her own after attack

(AP) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was breathing on her own and moving both arms after being shot in the head, doctors said Tuesday. Giffords still has a breathing tube to prevent infections such as pneumonia, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Google launches next phase of voice-recognition project

Google on Tuesday switched on a new program that will dramatically improve the accuracy of its speech recognition service, which allows people to use verbal commands to search the Internet, send an e-mail ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 12

Microsoft Kinect: Revolutionary technology in early phases

Nintendo got the motion-activated gaming craze started with the Wii controller, and Sony improved on the motion controller with its Move.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

ARMAR-III, the robot that learns via touch (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Europe have created a robot that uses its body to learn how to think. It is able to learn how to interact with objects by touching them without needing to rely on a massive ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report


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