Be careful not to squeeze a robot’s hand too tight – they may complain. Trying to make human-robot interactions less artifical, a group of researchers has created ShadowSense. This technology uses a USB camera under the robot’s skin to capture the shadows of hand gestures and classify them using machine learning. Aside from just adding human elements to a machine, it creates the potential for robots to assist in evacuations and other emergency services. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
