Due to the difficulties involved in evaluating autism, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often diagnosed quite late, reaching 5 or 6 years of age.
A recent study claims yes. Human replicas resemble and act almost like human beings, but they elicit feelings of displeasure. The perceptual mismatch between appearance and movement could be causing these feelings.
The study of the movement of the lizards' tail has inspired a group of scientists to create a robot with an appendix in the back that manages to stabilize it when jumping. In this video you can observe in slow motion the results of the study and how the tail of these oviparous birds stabilizes them when jumping from one platform to another.
A couple of Australian robots have started talking to each other in a language of their own invention. The two "Lingodroids", developed by the University of Queensland, have acquired their common language through location games that led them to build a common vocabulary for places, distances and directions.
Researchers from the Valladolid company Cartif and the University of Vigo have developed two humanoid assistant robots for hotels, "Sacarino" and "BellBot". The first prototype will begin its internship as a bellboy in a few days at a hotel in Valladolid.
The first marathon for bipedal robots started today in Japan, in the city of Osaka. The humanoid runners, 44 centimeters tall, will have to travel 42 kilometers (423 laps on a 100-meter circuit) over four days before the attentive gazes of the hundreds of spectators who will attend the event.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin (Germany) has created an industrial robot of human-like proportions with a fingertip sensitivity that allows it to even hold an egg without breaking it.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
