A new software system helps robots to more effectively act on instructions from people, who by nature give commands that range from simple and straightforward to those that are more complex and imply ...

Canadian robotics company Bionik Laboratories has demonstrated a prototype of its Arke lower-body exoskeleton that can be controlled via Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa. In normal usage, the Arke is ...

Many robots today are able to follow verbal instructions. However, the robot first has to be programmed with software code that allows it to respond to those instructions in some predetermined way, ...

Air traffic control (ATC) systems are increasingly leveraging sophisticated speech recognition technologies to enhance communication between controllers and pilots, thereby improving operational ...

Dancer who learned dance first by sight, later, were better able to reproduce the dance phrase than if they had initially been taught the dance by listening to spoken instructions. Learning a dance ...

CVS Pharmacy has released a Near Field Communication (NFC)-based solution that allows patients with visual impairments to access information regarding their prescribed medications, along with dosage ...

(Nanowerk News) A new system based on research by Brown University computer scientists makes robots better at following spoken instructions, no matter how abstract or specific those instructions may ...