Robotics
Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting physical activity—and possibly creating a new mode of transportation—engineers at Stanford University are studying devices that people ...
Mar 25, 2020
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Engineering
Using a miniature camera and a customized deep neural network, Cornell researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind wristband that tracks the entire body posture in 3D.
Nov 8, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Human facial movements convey emotions, and help us communicate nonverbally and perform physical activities, such as eating and drinking.
Aug 2, 2021
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Hardware
The sentient magic carpet from 'Aladdin' might have a new competitor. While it can't fly or speak, a new tactile sensing carpet from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can estimate human ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years there have been exciting breakthroughs in wearable technologies, like smartwatches that can monitor your breathing and blood oxygen levels.
Mar 25, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
There you are wrist deep into a quart of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey, digging ever deeper. You can't deny it. Your necklace is recording the ice-cream binge, which it will later dispatch to a coach or dietician.
Jul 8, 2020
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Engineering
Using smartphones, fitness bracelets and a custom app, researchers have created a mobile-sensing system that judges employee performance.
Jun 24, 2019
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Robotics
New research has shown for the first time that a social robot can deliver a 'helpful' and 'enjoyable' motivational interview (MI) - a counselling technique designed to support behaviour change.
May 3, 2018
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Consumer & Gadgets
Soon enough, a bedside Amazon device might know whether you're sleeping—or not.
Sep 28, 2022
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Engineering
Urban and transportation planning influence population-level physical activity, a recently published doctoral dissertation shows. Increases in community structure density, mixed land use, and access networks were associated ...
Jun 9, 2021
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