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• With robots, humans face ‘new society’

  Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of funding for the Human Brain Project. Danica Kragic, a robotics researcher and computer science professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, says that while the prospect of living among humanoid robots calls to mind terrifying scenarios from science fiction, the reality of how humans cope with advances in robotics will be more complex, and subtle.

• Her work is praised for innovation

  Ten years ago, KTH researcher Hedvig Kjellström wrote a scientific article together with Michal Black and David Fleet which they then submitted to ECCV, one of three major conferences in computer vision. And now, ten years later, she and her colleagues are being rewarded for the same article as it proved to be very innovative.