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  • Summer 2018
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    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
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    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
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    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
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    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
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  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
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  • Spring 2016
    • Accommodating Transgender
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    • A Way to Innocence
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    • Staying on Pointe
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    • Two Homelands, One Love
  • Spring 2015
    • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
    • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
    • Boston 2024 Olympics
    • #BostonFitnessFads
    • Boston Mindfulness
    • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
    • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
    • Families Serving Time
    • Fueling the Future
    • Helping the Homeless
    • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
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    • Overdose Oversight
    • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
    • Robots Among Us
    • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
    • Styling Beantown
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    • The Algorithm Revolution
    • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
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    • Wanted: More Women Leaders
    • World-Class Boston?
  • Spring 2014
    • Big Effect of Small-time Football
    • Bike Friendly Boston
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    • Coastal Conversion
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    • Lost at 18
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    • Vinyl’s Comeback?
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    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
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      • Lost at 18
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    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
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      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Robots Among Us

The specialized field of social robotics has grown in regards to diversified applications, artificial learning and autonomy. But does this mean the robot takeover is in our future?

The state of robotics: Engineers tackle the next tech challenges

April 30, 2015 Alyssa Shaffer 0

Engineers and developers are looking at ways for robots to assist us in different aspects of our lives. What challenges will they face as they introduce their technologies into people’s lives?

Teaching robots how to learn: Researchers create algorithms so robots can learn and adapt

April 30, 2015 Alyssa Shaffer 0

Hawking and Gates have expressed concerns about artificial intelligence. But first engineers need to figure out a way for robots to learn and adapt to various situations.

The media’s robot revolution: Artists imagine the robotic possibilities

April 30, 2015 Alyssa Shaffer 0

Filmmakers and other artists use the limitless possibilities of robotics to create their own vision of the future. How do these iconic images of robots in pop culture influence our perception of today’s technology?

About the Author

  • Alyssa Shaffer

    Alyssa Shaffer is putting all those years of TV-and-movie-watching to good use as an aspiring journalist. She graduated from Boston College in 2013 with a B.A. in Communications and Film Studies, and she graduated from Emerson College in 2015 with a M.A. in Journalism.

    http://word.emerson.edu/fall13jr607-01-shaffer/

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