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Empathizing With Humans – Scientists Have Created a Robot That Can Laugh With You
The researchers hoped to use their system to improve natural conversations between robots and people. To foster empathy in conversation,…
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Inspired by Manta Ray Biomechanics: “Butterfly Bot” Is Fastest Swimming Soft Robot Ever
Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four…
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Tech Moves: Longtime Amazon execs retire; Madrona Venture Labs partner departs
Amazon has lost two longtime executives to retirement: Tom Taylor, senior vice president of Amazon Alexa, and Gregg Zehr, president…
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Harvard-Developed Tentacle Robot Can Gently Grasp Fragile Objects
Close-up of the gripper’s filaments wrapping around an object. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Lab/Harvard SEAS You are aware of how difficult…
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Meet Wigl: A toy robot that teaches kids basic programming and music skills at once
Vivek Mano believes two basic information: The world can at all times use extra proficient engineers, and kids love enjoying…
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Agriculture 3.0: How researchers are harvesting the power of robots and drones to reboot farming
If agriculture conjures pictures in your thoughts of a farmer sweating atop an outdated tractor or rusty sprinklers watering crops,…
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Intensive summer coding camp introduces girls to tech industry, with help from women who’ve made it
It’s no secret that there’s a scarcity of women in expertise, and in Washington state alone there are greater than…
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Now editing MSN: Hugh Jackman
Microsoft’s MSN is seeking to faucet into some starpower to spark new curiosity within the Web portal. X-Males star Hugh Jackman,…
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Former Microsofties build startup on stickers and goo
Alex Malek and Will Bradley each began at Microsoft straight out of college, working for the final decade as engineers…
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GeekWire’s Top 50 Posts of 2012: Milestones, stunts and more craziness from the year in tech
It’s that point when journalists take a second to mirror on the previous year. We’re doing that right here on…
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