The robot can also be programmed with speech therapy and object recognition exercises to help people with dementia.

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They foresee such applications as encryption, precise navigation and fast object recognition.

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The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.

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Additional competitions to generate ideas for barcode scanning and face-object recognition, and to develop wireframes, a screen design, a system architecture, and more for the ISS FIT app will wrap up by late May.

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In experiments performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, when humans were asked to perform object recognition tasks, the experiments were kept under an hour so as not to get to the point where the subjects could no longer focus on the task.

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In a recent demonstration, Microsoft executives showed how the object-recognition feature could work for Harrah's Entertainment Inc.

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It uses a vehicle-mounted camera, object-recognition software and satellite positioning to create detailed 3-D maps of roads, pinpointing features such as pot-holes.

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