Biomedical engineers, for instance, are in great demand by device makers who produce things like artificial limbs and imagining machines, and companies looking to do gene testing and to make new drugs.

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Design a steel frame is lifted onto the build table and the team walks around it, looking at the frame from all angles, scratching their heads and imagining what they could do with it.

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Saygin and colleagues published a study last year using functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI), looking at what's happening in the brain that might explain the uncanny valley phenomenon.

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He is looking at them as they absently sift sand with their hands, and imagining them as children in cotton hats, pouring sand from one bucket to another as their parents talk over and around them.

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