Android acquires nonverbal communication skills

As Japan’s population continues to age and shrink, more and more people are looking at robots as a way to improve productivity and support the nation’s changing lifestyles. With human-robot interactions on the rise, and with the recognition that much of human communication is nonverbal, researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have developed an autonomous humanoid robot they say can recognize and use body language.

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Fires raging across California have caused more than $1-billion in property damage and left three people dead, officials said on Wednesday, as a lull in winds allowed firefighters to make their first significant progress in combating the flames.

Around 1700 buildings have been destroyed in the 18 fires that have erupted since Sunday, forcing an estimated 500 000 people to flee their homes and scorching 172 000 hectares of tinder-dry countryside stretching from celebrity-studded Malibu to beyond the Mexican border.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said three people had died and 40 people had been injured in the fires, the worst to hit California since devastating 2003 blazes which claimed 22 lives.

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