Interdisciplinary Research

Interdisciplinary Research

How Can Robots Get Our Attention?

In a preliminary study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that they can program a robot to understand when it gains a human’s…

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Teaching Robots to Move Like Humans

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that when robots move in a more human-like fashion, with one movement leading into the next, that…

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Cross-Disciplinary Research Boosts Military Intervention Strategies

But the fact that researchers in the various disciplines formulate the problems differently and use different scientific methods means that they often reach…

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WSU researcher designs multilingual instruction materials for world's largest mall

Monica W. Tracey, Ph.D., associate professor of instructional technology and administrative and organizational studies in WSU's College of Education and…

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New approach needed to prevent major 'systemic failures'

“The striking similarities in such catastrophes necessitates a broader perspective to better understand such failures,” said Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a…

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Climatic Fluctuations: Impact on Social Upheaval Explored

It would seem that there are striking chronological parallels between significant variations of climate and major historical epochs, such as the Migration…

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For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First

Or at least that’s not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bongard has discovered, as he reports in the January 10 online edition of…

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Water, Water Everywhere Focus of New Sustainability Project

Five UW-Madison professors, including two of the campus’s most-lauded ecologists, recently received a five-year, nearly $5 million grant from the NSF to study…

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Robot Arm Improves Performance of Brain-Controlled Device

Devices that translate brain activity into the movement of a computer cursor or an external robotic arm have already proven successful in humans. But in these…

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Imaging Science Sparks New Interdisciplinary Collaborations

More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's…

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Linking Geometry and Physics: New Solutions Ahead

Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry, has shown that two abstract puzzles in geometry — known as the “covering” and “quantizer” problems — can be…

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UM Researchers Enhance Robotics Through Child-Mother Interaction

To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and…

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Robotic gripper runs on coffee … and balloons

They call it a universal gripper, as it conforms to the object it's grabbing rather than being designed for particular objects, said Hod Lipson, Cornell…

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Understanding Droughts and Floods: Complex Factors Unveiled

Extreme events, such as floods or droughts, are caused by multiple factors – and must therefore be studied from many different perspectives. This is what…

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Dancing Robot Swan Sparks Emotions in Exclusive Debut

The swan robot´s just over four-minute-long dance has so far been seen only by a select few. But it has already made a big impression. Tearful eyes and words…

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Football-Playing Robots: Shaping AI’s Future at RoboCup

The author, Claude Sammut, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems in Sydney, reviewed the technology demonstrated at the RoboCup…

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