Can machines replace teachers? Probably not. But if they can help teachers to teach, and do it effectively, they may at least help solve the teacher shortage. The teaching machines’ stoutest advocates ...

Saudi Arabia now has a matching pair of male and female humanoid robots whose AI is coded to be culturally aligned with the nation's values. Just weeks after the male robot, Muhammed, groped a women's ...

Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shor ...

The effect of the Programed Math Tutorial--programed tutoring in mathematics--on achievement of kindergarten and first grade children was investigated in three field studies. In one, 140 first-graders ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. “Luca, ...

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MOSCOW, January 11. /TASS/. The drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles - UAVs) that tried to attack Russian military facilities in Syria’s Hmeymim and Tartus in the small hours of January 6 were ...

A double amputee has become the first person in the world to get pair of bionic hands that can be controlled by an iPhone app. Jason Koger said he has been able to hold his daughter's hand for the ...

Abstract: Current-programed controllers are essential for power flow management among different terminals of multiport dc–dc converter topologies. The feedback input to these controllers, most ...

Immune responses in the central nervous system (CNS), which involve both resident glial cells and infiltrating peripheral immune cells, play critical roles in the progress of brain injuries and ...