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Machine learning improves human speech recognition

To understand how hearing loss impacts people, researchers study people’s ability to recognize speech, and hearing aid algorithms are often used to improve human speech recognition. Researchers explore a human speech recognition model based on machine learning and deep neural…

Fingertip sensitivity for robots

Striving to improve touch sensing in robotics, scientists developed a thumb-shaped sensor with a camera hidden inside and trained a deep neural network to infer its haptic contact information. When something touches the finger, the system constructs a three-dimensional force…

Introducing Nikola, the emotional android kid

Researchers have made an android child named Nikola that successfully conveys six basic emotions — happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust. Facial expressions are generated by moving ‘muscles’ in Nikola’s face. This is the first time that the quality…