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Robot practice writing letters with children
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Robot practice writing letters with children

Researchers in Switzerland have designed a special robot, which acts as a student for children to 'teach' them how to write words. Thereby helping to improve children's…

December 12, 2018
Unlock the computer with brain waves
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Unlock the computer with brain waves

Mind-triggered devices may not be future fictions. Recently, Spanish scientists have successfully created a system that allows users to unlock the computer by thought, w…

December 12, 2018
Robot speaks first in space
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Robot speaks first in space

Astronaut Kirobo has enrolled in world history as a robot to send the first word on the International Space Station (ISS).

December 11, 2018
Text
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Text

US researchers say a new breakthrough in the text field will allow treadmill runners to read words as comfortably as they normally would.

December 11, 2018
Gloves convert the sign language into spoken words
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Gloves convert the sign language into spoken words

The Microsoft Imagine Cup competition in Sydney, Australia, draws on unique technological ideas. One of the six highly anticipated finalists is the Enable Talk project,…

December 11, 2018
Robots can learn languages from people
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Robots can learn languages from people

Robots can develop language skills through interaction with humans, according to a new study from the University of Hertfordshire (UK) in PLoS ONE. British researchers C…

December 11, 2018
Technology 'read' sound in the brain
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Technology 'read' sound in the brain

Scientists say advances in neuroscience have shown the ability to penetrate secrets in our brains. Interpretation of thought by reproducing sound, based on electric wave…

December 11, 2018
Tasting food from the tongue
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Tasting food from the tongue

The 'electronic nose' discovered the smell of a companion. This is a 'word blade', a method used to 'taste' the food and identify the ingredients…

December 11, 2018
Conversations do not need words
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Conversations do not need words

A new technology was announced at the CeBIT show, identifying the movement of the lips and turning them into voices.

December 11, 2018
Robots know when we are sad, happy or angry
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Robots know when we are sad, happy or angry

A robot with sympathetic words for us is no different from fiction, but with the support of the neural network European scientists are now working on creating robots of…

December 11, 2018
Known robots love sushi
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Known robots love sushi

According to Reuters, a new generation of robots has appeared in Japan, can show 36 different facial expressions when listening to a keyword or a sentence in English. Ka…

December 11, 2018
Paper ... say it
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Paper ... say it

A picture can replace thousands of words, but what's more 'horror' when that photo can ... say a few words? Italian company Zanetti Studio is trying to creat…

December 11, 2018