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ICYMI: Pedestrian tracking bot and earthquake simulation

Turing’s test needs robots to blend in among humans, so tracking how pedestrians move makes sense.

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Updated Sat, Jul 9, 2016, 9:00 AM

Today on In Case You Missed It: Stanford engineers are using a robot to understand the way humans move through a crowded space. University of California, San Diego researchers are using the world's largest outdoor shake table to simulate earthquakes and fire to a six story building.

If you can get into topics unrelated to Dallas and police shootings this weekend, German churches are using wifi to try to lure new attendees. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.

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