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Do Alexa and Siri make kids bossier? New research suggests you might not need to worry by Sarah McQuate, University of Washington Shown here is a screenshot of a prototype of the interface the children saw. Credit: University of Washington Chatting with a robot is now part of many families' daily lives, thanks to conversational agents such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa. Recent...

The distance between the Norwegian towns of Røros and Trondheim is about 100 kilometers as the crow flies. Three entrepreneurs from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)want to use drones to transport medical samples between them. Røros Hospital is a branch of St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim. The hospital takes medical samples all the time, but these often have to be analyzed...

A social robot from the National Robotarium, hosted by Heriot-Watt University, has become the world's first squash coach to explore if performance improvements and motivation levels can be increased during a player's solo practice. The project will involve research on court between a real player practicing a variety of shots and technical aspects of their swing, a motion tracking sensor attached to the squash...