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Life Sciences have been established and widely accepted as a foremost Big Data discipline; as such they are a constant source of the most computationally challenging problems. In order to provide efficient solutions, the community is turning towards scalable approaches such as the utilization of cloud resources in addition to any existing local computational infrastructures. Although bioinformatics...
The consumer robotics concept has already invaded our everyday lives, however two major drawbacks have become apparent both for the roboticists and the consumers. The first is that these robots are pre-programmed to perform specific tasks and usually their software is proprietary, thus not open to "interventions". The second is that even if their software is open source, low-cost robots...
Medical advances have increased life expectancy to the point where senior citizens comprise a larger than ever percentage of the general population. The RAPP project introduces socially interactive robots that will not only physically assist, but also serve as a companion to senior citizens. In this paper, a novel system is presented, designed as part of the RAPP project that aims to assist senior...
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