This Robot Uses A Kinect To Teach Autistic Children Social Skills

Meet Russell. This pint-sized piece of machinery is a special project being worked on by the scientists at Vanderbilt University. Fast Company's Pranav Dixit writes that the robot harness a combination of cameras and the Microsoft Kinect sensor to help autistic children develop social skills. This is how it works. Russell will engage the child asking them to play. Once they start moving around, the Kinect and camera combination will track their movements and record the results to send back to th...