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Socially-Assistive Robots Help Children With Autism Learn Imitative Behavior by Providing Personalized Encouragement
A pilot study examined using humanoid robots to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorders practice imitation behavior to encourage their autonomy.
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Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around
Drone makers are eager for a new age of drone ubiquity, but several issues remain to be resolved.
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Ieee Predicts Top Technologies For 2022
A new Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers report describes 23 technologies that it says could change the world by 2022.
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Earthquake Alert? An App For That Is On the Way
Saving your life when the Big One finally rocks California? Yeah, there's an app for that.
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E-Sports Set Video Gamers Fighting For Real Money in Virtual Contests
A bewitching creature—half woman, half deer—battles a shaman and a sentient tree.
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Study: Swedish Boys Are Learning English From World of Warcraft
Swedish children, especially boys, may be learning more English during a late-night Minecraft session than from struggling through hours of homework.
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Programmers Could Get Repl in Official Java
Proponents of open source Java are formally considering adding a Read Evaluate Print Loop tool to the programming language.
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Carnegie Mellon Receives $5.6m Nsf Grant For Cybersecurity Education
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $5.6-million grant through the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program.
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Brain-to-Brain Verbal Communication in Humans Achieved For the First Time
Humans just got a step closer to being able to think a message into someone else's brain on the other side of the world.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
Robots can outperform humans in areas such as strength and precision, but humans still are ahead of robots in the use of the senses, especially that of touch.
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Time Travel Simulation Resolves 'grandfather Paradox'
On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne...
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The Defenders of Anonymity on the Internet
You may not realise it, but every time you open up your laptop or switch on your phone, you are at the heart of one of the greatest battles now taking place in...
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Real Tremors, or Drug-Seeking Patient? New App Can Tell
A new app is designed to measure the strength of patients' tremors, providing objective guidance to direct treatment decisions.
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New Smartphone App Can Detect Newborn Jaundice in Minutes
BiliCam is a new smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results to parents and doctors within minutes.
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Chinese Scientists Create Robot Arm Powered By Thought That Can Play Rock-Paper-Scissors
Zhejiang University researchers have equipped a patient with a special robotic arm that she can control with the power of her thoughts.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
In factories and warehouses, robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision.
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'face Time' For the Heart Diagnoses Cardiac Disease
New software can show whether or not an individual is experiencing atrial fibrillation.
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Finding the 'holy Grail' of Making Smarter Robots
Robots that can learn how to do just about anything, including anticipating what their human owners are about to do, may be lurking around the corner if scientists...
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Baby X, The Intelligent Toddler Simulation, Is Getting Smarter Every Day
Holding a children's picture book up to his computer screen, a researcher for the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Laboratory for Animate Technologies in New Zealand...
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