[postlink]http://radical-technology.blogspot.com/2010/06/robot-fish-leads-schoolreally.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xw8v0CjyCYendofvid [starttext] Artificial intelligence? Done. Artificial leadership? Its origins may well be in the fish tanks and the algorithms in Maurizio Porfiri’s Brooklyn laboratories at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly). Here the assistant professor of mechanical engineering, best known for modeling advanced smart materials, is using those materials, plus a lot of mathematics and his love for animals and science fiction, to build robots that lead schooling fish.http://www.poly.edu/press-release/2010/05/26/follow-robotic-leader [endtext]
Using robots in nursing homes linked to higher employee retention, better
patient care
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Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have
increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few
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