PARO the baby seal can recognise faces and voices. \NUIG/Sligo IT
Social robots will complement the work of carers and solve a skills shortage at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to get people into care jobs,” say Drs Perry Share and John Pender, joint coordinators of a project called PRoSPEro (the Pedagogy of Robotics in the Social Professions in Europe), who spoke at an online workshop organised by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
This project is currently developing training programmes for care professionals in the use of social robots, bringing practitioners and policy makers together and sharing international knowledge about the current state and future use of robots.
One Embarcadero Center by Gensler: 2020 Best of Year Winner for Domestic Commercial Lobby
February 4, 2021
Photography by Joe Fletcher.
The matter at hand: a 3,150-square-foot office lobby within a complex of brutalist towers was due for a facelift if it was to keep up with the rapidly evolving city of San Francisco. The existing structure,
designed in the late 1960s by neo-futurist
architect John Portman and completed in ’71, possessed a main entry practically obscured by a pair of retail escalators, which the Gensler team ultimately decided to remove. The lobby overhaul not only results in a more open and secure entry but also redirects attention toward a showstopping feature wall of 250 reinforced-concrete “ribbons” that cascade from the ceiling to form intuitive seating nooks. Gensler developed the wall in collaboration with fabricator ConcreteWorks using both virtual and full-scale models, the finished installation one that celebrates, rather than obscures, Portm
British chef arrested for killing of Dublin man in Spain found dead in prison cell Gentle giant John Pender was killed in front of his wife and friends in
Suspected killer Leigh Gardiner from the UK appears at court in Fuengirola on the Costa Del Sol, accused of the murder of Irish man John Pender from Dublin (Image: Solarpix.com)
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A BRITISH chef found dead in his prison cell had been warned he was about to be charged with the murder of an Irish holidaymaker.
A forensic psychologist had also determined Leigh Anthony Gardiner was fit to stand trial and could not plead an insanity defence.
The 51-year-old was put on suicide watch after his June 2019 arrest for the savage Costa del Sol killing of gentle giant Irish holidaymaker John Pender in front of his wife and friends.
Investigators heading two separate probes are expected to rule he killed himself at Alhaurin de la Torre prison near Malaga a fortnight ago after the twin setbacks.
Annelisa Roseen has been paying homage to celebrities celebrating birthdays every day since March 25, 2020. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Annelisa Roseen recreates the look of celebrities using her own face. (Images courtesy of Roseen)
On a recent Tuesday evening, Annie Roseen had a date with Diane Keaton’s face. The Duluth artist’s phone screen showed dozens of images of Keaton that Roseen had collected pictures she would later sort through to study the actor’s nostrils and eyebrows, width of face, her expressions as Roseen committed to her own transformation.
The result, which she later posted on Instagram and Facebook, was Keaton as Annie Hall: black bowler hat, white shirt and tie, of course, but also the mounded cheeks, signature downward squint and Keaton s small mouth.