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Jeux vidéo : une étude prouve des effets bénéfiques pour la santé mentale

● A Japanese study involving more than 8,000 participants investigated the impact of video games on mental well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic.
● Contradicting conventional assumptions, the results of the study demonstrated that gaming was associated with improved scores across a range of psychological indicators.
● Gamers, notably the owners of Nintendo Switch consoles, enjoyed greater mental well-being than non-gamers, and the extent to which they did varied significantly depending on gender and age.
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Two individuals sitting on a couch, playing video games. One is holding a game controller, focused on the screen, while the other appears to be giving advice or sharing strategies. The setting is modern and bright, with a kitchen visible in the background.

Multimodal learning / multimodal AI

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Soft Robotics Lab – ETH Zürich (lab head: Prof. Robert Katzschmann (not in the picture). From left to right: Jose Greminger (Master student), Pablo Paniagua (Master student), Jakob Schreiner (visiting PhD student), Aiste Balciunaite (PhD student), Miriam Filippi (Established researcher), and Asia Badolato (PhD student).

When will we see living robots? The challenges facing biohybrid robotics

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A woman stands in a train, holding a phone. She is wearing a beige coat and a blue and brown scarf. The interior of the train is bright, with seats and metal support bars.

A mathematical model to help AIs anticipate human emotions

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person wearing bioelectronic fibre arrays for dual-ECG signal acquisition / credit: Wenyu Wang and Yuan Shui

Bioelectronics: disease monitoring sensors that can be printed directly onto human skin

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Artificial pollination: robotic solutions that aim to supplement the work of bees

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Tom Chatfield: “AI could lead to a massive pollution of the world’s data and the erasure of trust.”

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