A significant portion of Scassellati's research focuses on using robots in autism research and therapy. His work explores how robots can be used as tools to study the social behaviors of individuals with autism & the potential clinical impact of robot interactions in autism intervention . #robots
There’s a bookstore in my town in SW Virginia with an entire shelf devoted to how much JD Vance sucks and doesn’t speak for Appalachia, which I’ve always had the sense is a somewhat bipartisan consensus out here, so I confess I am curious to see how that ends up playing.
After asking the government (or private foundations) to pay for the costs of doing research, we conduct the research and write papers about it that our peers review for free, then we donate those papers to for-profit companies that sell them back to us at high prices. This is considered normal.