Engineering
Robotic boots providing superhuman reflexes can help your balance. Our new study shows that the key to augmenting balance is to have boots that can act faster than human reaction times.
Feb 16, 2023
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Software
There are significant privacy concerns surrounding the use of smart phones with camera-based assistive technology. The primary concern being that visually impaired users relying on such technology for facial recognition and ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are tapping into advances in artificial intelligence to develop a new kind of walking stick for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Jan 19, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
If you're one of the 1.2 million Australians with communication disability or among the 44% of Australian adults with low literacy, you may soon find helpful, automated communication assistance online.
Jan 19, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Individuals who have limited hand function can soon have a simple way of controlling devices such as computers, smartphones, and wheelchairs by wearing a smart mouthguard that translates complex bite patterns accurately and ...
Oct 11, 2022
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Internet
Data visualizations on the web are largely inaccessible for blind and low-vision individuals who use screen readers, an assistive technology that reads on-screen elements as text-to-speech. This excludes millions of people ...
Jun 3, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
In early March, a manipulated video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ciruclated. In it, a digitally generated Zelenskyy told the Ukrainian national army to surrender. The video was circulated online but was ...
May 9, 2022
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Automotive
In late 2019, Kevin George Aziz Riad's car sped off a California freeway, ran a red light, and crashed into another car, killing the two people inside. Riad's car, a Tesla Model S, was on Autopilot.
Mar 9, 2022
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Engineering
Brooks Rehabilitation recently announced that the MagTrack study, a collaborative research endeavor with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been successfully completed. Feedback from the Brooks ...
Mar 4, 2022
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Robotics
When we pick something up, we'll often jostle it around a bit, searching to get the best grip. A team of researchers have now developed a robotic hand that does something similar—a breakthrough that could advance the field ...
Mar 3, 2022
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