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10 Minutes with a Dog Helps Reduce Pain in Emergency Room PatientsWe’ve known all along that dogs are man’s best friend. And apparently, a doctor’s best friend too. A new study shows that the presence of a therapy dog in the emergency room has positive effect for patients."There is research showing that pets are an important part of our health in different ways. They motivate us, they get us up, (give us) routines, the human-animal bond," said lead study author Colleen Dell, the research chair in One Health and Wellness and professor at the University of Saskatchewan.The study asked 200 patients in the ER to rate their pain from 1 to 10 (with 10 as the highest level of pain). One control group is left to their own devices, meanwhile the other group was given 10 minutes to spend with therapy dogs. Afterward, they were asked again to rate their pain levels. In the end, the group visited by the dogs recorded less pain.The result simply reinforces what many have suspected all along : dogs' affection cures all ills. With this discovery, Dell hopes to quell the debate about whether therapy dogs are truly medically helpful and start a movement to better incorporate them into healthcare practices.Image: Ryan Stone/Unsplash#pain #PainManagement #dog #EmergencyRoom #medicine #therapydog

Dogs Recognize Whether a Human Language is Their Owner's LanguageLaura V. Cuaya moved from Mexico to Hungary to do postdoctoral research in neuroethologyat Eötvös Loránd University. She took her dog, Kun-kun, with her. She found people would greet Kun-kun on walks and speak to him in Hungarian. Cuaya wondered what Kun-kun thought of that, and whether he could even distinguish that it was an unfamiliar language. The question was right up her research alley, so she designed an experiment around it.Kun-kun and 17 other dogs were trained to lie still in a brain scanner, in which they were read The Little Prince in both Spanish and Hungarian, followed by a recording of human sounds that aren't speech at all. The results showed a distinct difference in the audio cortex between the recordings of the familiar language and the unfamiliar language. However, there was no significant difference in brain activity between the non-familiar language and the scrambled sounds. The results were published this week in the journal NeuroImage, and the abstract was also used for a video.

Roomba Draws Dog That Refuses to MoveTwitter user Chris Carman reports that his sister's dog will not move from his spot, thus ensuring that her vacuuming robot draws a picture around the pup. Good boy! Defend your turf.-via Super Punch#dog #Roomba

Xiaomi Unveiled A $1,500 Four-Legged Robot Named CyberDogMove over, Spot! Chinese tech firm Xiaomi has just released an experimental, open-sourced quadruped robot named 'CyberDog.'Xiaomi's CyberDog looks similar to Boston Dynamic's Spot robot, although it is physically smaller at 15.7 inches and weighing 31 lb compared to Spot's 24 inch height and 72 lb weight. It moves at speeds of up to 7.15 mph, roughly twice of Spot's 3.5 mph speed).Priced at about $1,500, CyberDog is just a fraction of the price of Spot which sells for $75,000 apiece. Xiaomi is limiting its 1,000 initial units for sale to fans, engineers, and robotic enthusiasts in hopes that early-adopters will add to the development to the robot.The "brain" of CyberDog is Nvidia's Jetson Xavier NX module consisting of 384 CUDA cores, 48 Tensor cores, 6 Carmel CPU cores and two dedicated deep learning cores. The modules analyzes data from 11 sensors and instruct Xiaomi's custom-developed servos to move the robot and even perform tricks like back flips.Sensors on the robot's body include Intel RealSense D450 depth sensor to enable object tracking and obstacle avoidance, AI interactive cameras, and binocular ultra wide fisheye cameras to help it navigate.Images: Xiaomi#robot #CyberDog #Spot #quadrupedrobot #dog #BostonDynamics

Can You Find the Yorkie on the Rug?Somewhere in this photo is a yorkie perfectly camouflage on a rug. Can you spot it?Give up? Here it is.#yorkie #yorkshireterrier #dog #rug #HiddenAnimal