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Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Psychological theory and robots
How do you give back psychological theory to the robot? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 5
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Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Natural language processing and computer vision
How does natural language processing and computer vision applied to robots differ from the standard tasks they do in other areas? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 2
Next Animation Studio
NASA to attach ‘robot hotel’ to International Space Station
NASA plans to launch a storage space for robotic tools called the Robotic Tool Stowage, or RiTS, to the International Space Station.
Science360
Researchers develop modular robots that can autonomously adapt to changing environment.
In this week’s episode, we test a new breed of drones that can navigate without GPS; we explore changing terrain with shapeshifting autonomous robots, and finally, we examine a new 3D bioprinting technique that could someday create...
Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 15
An app brings the doctor to your doorstep, 3D printers construct concrete buildings and technology helps students perform their best. Plus, a leading artificial intelligence researcher explains how close we are to creating sentient...
Science360
A humanoid robot helps children with Autism Spectrum Disorder! NSF Science Now 12
This week's episode highlights Vanderbilt University's humanoid robot geared to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, University of Michigan researchers harnessing terahertz technology that could one day help doctors see deep into...
Science360
NSF Science Now 12
This week's episode highlights Vanderbilt University's humanoid robot geared to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, University of Michigan researchers harnessing terahertz technology that could one day help doctors see deep into...
Science360
Soft “vine robots” grow into solutions - Science Nation
Engineers design vine-like, inflatable, plastic bots that can change shape to solve problems. Description: Animals inspire many designs for robots, from the gecko-inspired StickyBot to RoboBees. But mechanical engineers at Stanford...
Science360
NSF Science Now: Episode 35
In this week's episode we learn about models that simulate how a majority of Americans can eat locally grown food, how robots learn, fun and educational video games for the classroom and, finally, we explore a future forest.
Book Club for Kids
Finding Purpose in "The Wild Robot"
A robot is a machine programmed for a purpose—to perform a human task. But can a robot survive on its own? That’s the existential question in The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, in which a robotic heroine, Roz, breaks during a tornado and...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bend It Like NIST
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction but at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), nanosoccer is serious business.
Science360
Printable Robots Designed To Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
This project envisions a future where 3-D robotic systems can be produced and designed using 2-D desktop technology fabrication methods. If this feat is achieved, it would be possible for the average person to design, customize and print...
Science360
Cooperative Robots That Learn Less Work For Human Handlers
It is an unusual scientific partnership. With support from the National Science Foundation, Linguist Jeff Heinz and mechanical engineer Bert Tanner are teaching robots about cooperative behavior, by observing how children learn to...
Science360
When Robots Invaded the Senate - Cyber-Physical Systems Demo for Senators and Staff
Scalpels that a surgeon uses to excise small tumors but never actually touches. Robots that can take the place of lab rats in clinical trials. Cars that can drive themselves through busy streets. These were just some of the cutting-edge...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Back To The Moon: Elon Musk speaks at a space conference
After a quiet half a century since the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, Associate Professor Alan Duffy takes us inside the new space race. What are Elon Musk's plans for the moon? What is the space conference like in Adelaide?...
Next Animation Studio
Indian hospital begins using popular surgery robot system
Ambani Hospital in Mumbai has launched a robotic surgical system, known as the Da Vinci system, performing 11 successful surgeries so far. The Da Vinci system is being used to perform complicated surgeries. The robot's precision...
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries and a Thing You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 40
In this science video: The singing, song-writing robot; privacy advisory; cloud seeding succeeding; safer self-driving; and arming yourself with tentacles. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries and a Thing You Probably Didn’t Hear About. New...
Science360
ENGINEERING HIGHLY ADAPTABLE ROBOTS REQUIRES NEW TOOLS FOR NEW RULES
Northwestern University Mechanical Engineering professor Todd Murphey and his team are engineering robots that one might say could make robotic assistance as seamless as "humanly" possible. With support from the National Science...
Programming Electronics Academy
How to Assemble the DFRobot Pirate 4WD Mobile Platform
This video walk through assembling the popular DFRobot Pirate. It focuses mostly on what the instruction manual leaves out, which I hope will save you some time!
Next Animation Studio
ITRI Medirobot lifts and moves patients with ease
Medirobot is a collaborative design between Taipei Municipal Yan Ming Home and Pilotfish in Taipei and Munich. Medirobot can transfer patients with limited mobility efficiently without the need of extra equipment. Sensors inside identify...
Pitsco Education
RoboBench TETRIX MAX RangerMAX Bot Activity
We have the need for speed! In this RoboBench, Tim walks through an activity to test and measure speed with the TETRIX MAX Ranger Bot. See how fast your bot can go!
Curated Video
William Jennings Bryan: Flag of an Empire Speech
Former U.S. Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan spoke in Indianapolis back in 1900 on the opposition of Imperialism within America. The speech has since been entitled Flag of an Empire.
Catalyst University
Transaminase Mechanism (Pyruvate Conversion to L-Alanine)
Here we show the organic mechanism of the conversion of pyruvate to L-alanine. This is a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent mechanism that can be applied all transaminase reactions.