Robot Accepts Gift From Human Hand With Help Of Motion Capture
Researchers have had a difficult time developing a robot that is able to recognize when a person is handing them something and predicting where to make the hand-off. However, researchers have made...
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Word of the Day
bowbell
- One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
The ‘Bow-bells’ refer to bells of the St Mary-le-Bow, a historic church in London.
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. 
- Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
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