Engineer says robotics can use a woman’s touch

A recent Women’s eNews article profiled Robin Murphy, director of the U.S.A.’s Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue.  In the article, she says that rescue robotics, and the overall field of artificial intelligence, “requires a woman’s touch, a better sensitivity, to really put people first in designing rescue robots.”

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Celebrate World Press Freedom Day 2010

On behalf of the many women without freedom of expression, speech and other rights, celebrate World Press Freedom Day this 3 May.

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