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When you come home from work at night, does your robot greet you at the door expectantly, or does it sit there impassively in its recharging node because it can't tell the difference between you, the mailman, and Emilio Estevez? Today's computer scientists are hard at work making sure tomorrow's robots won't leave you feeling emotionally shunned. Check out how researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute are using something called "Active Appearance Modeling" to improve face recognition algorithms that will make your bot snap to attention when it sees your face. More »
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