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Feeling the digital
Have you ever wondered what the fabric feels like on a jumper you were thinking to order online? Or wanted to touch the hand of your distant relatives through your computer screen? Assistant professor Yasemin Vardar knows exactly how you feel. For years, we’ve been able to send and receive digital packets. But we can’t do that for ‘touch’. In 2020, she founded the Haptic Interface Technology Lab to change that.
Protecting a Sustainable Future
If you want to know more about the research of Thomas Höllt, you could simply have a look at his work. It should – for the trained eye – speak for itself. And what you will see, will vary from the dispersion of proteins in cells, to the different layers in an old Vermeer painting. His visualization platform does not only help biologists to understand how the immune system works, it also helps them to get to the roots of diseases and come up with specialized treatment. And it can also be used to identify and chart invaluable paintings and could have many more applications.
Adding social awareness to conversational agents
Conversational AI right now almost entirely lacks an ability that’s natural to us humans. It can’t yet tune in to the subtleties of how something is being said and adapt a response to fit. Catharine Oertel from the Interactive Intelligence Group develops conversational agents that are socially aware, allowing them to engage with people in a much more human-like manner
New, biology-inspired robot brain
Biology is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for robotics. Whether it involves walking, grabbing, flying or swimming, robotics looks with amazement and interest at the rich variety of solutions that evolution has developed. Not that robotics blindly copies nature, but it does take what it can to use in its mechanical robots. An efficient way of letting a robot’s hand grab a delicate bell pepper, for example. Or an energy-efficient way of letting a robot walk on two legs.
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