Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM Jun 28 2023 The Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy may have been onto something when he wrote the opening line of Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A recent study published in Psychological Science and led by a scholar now at the...
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SCIENTISTS IN JAPAN BUILD ROBOT TO HOLD HANDS WITH LONELY PEOPLE
Robot Girlfriend Scientists from Japan’s Gifu University built a robot hand for men to clasp when they feel lonely. The hand, dubbed “Osampo Kanojo,” which the engineers roughly translate to “My Girlfriend in Walk” in their research, is meant to feel and even smell like a romantic partner from the forearm down, according to CNET. The idea, supposedly, is...