the robotics lab is using brainwaves as research to help develop products like a robotic glove. "in the glove we will have sensors" sensors that would allow a blind person to pre locate and grasp an object. they are also working with camera and laser technology to help translate text. it is in the translation of text where officials major breakthrough in helping the blind. paul harris, paul.harris@kolotv.com , "one of the things staff and faculty at the unr robotics lab are really excited about is this little device right here." mehdi rahimi, student, "the camera would capture the text and simultaneously convert it to braille signals.the blind person would feel the sensation on his or her finger.that person can read almost any text." and the research being done is starting to get noticed by businesses. dr. sami fadali, chair, unr college of engineering, "we have had some discussion with some companies about some of the products that our facility have produced." however it is the notion that his work can improve someone's life is motivation for mehdi med-he rahimi. " that's just

the robotics laboratory at the university of nevada has the potential to help thousands-- if not millions of people, with disabilities. that research involves brain-waves and camera technology. the lab is working on products that have people... like a robotic glove that could allow blind people to find and grab an object. another idea is a finger sensor. trt: 17 mehdi rahimi, student, "the person would sense the same sensation that he would get when he moved his finger over those braille bumps.". u-n-r student mehdi rahimi says theres noththing else like this piece of technology on the market. right now these items are conceptual but the robotics lab is working to make them a reality. stay with us, we'll be right back. let's check in with "mike keeton" from the "koh ho i was walking home. just picked us up two breakfast croissants for four bucks, when this bear attacked. with one swipe, it devoured one of theroissants. then jack showed up and took care of the beast, so i could escape. and that's what happened to your breakfast croissant. and yours? it survived. share it with yourself. freshlycracked egg with ham and bacon,or sausage, let's check in with "mike keeton" from the "koh r

the lab is working on products that have sensors to help blind people... like a robotic glove that could allow blind people to find and grab an object. or a finger sensor-- with a camera that would sense letters in real time... sending pressure to the finger, like braile. even though these items are conceptual... the robotics lab is working to make them a reality on the market. ### a big recall today for infant car seats. bri-tax child safety is recalling more than 71- thousand seats, because the handles can break. the car seat cover handle can crack and break, allowing the seat to fall unexpectedly. the recall covers three models, made from 2014 to 2015. bri-tax says it has received 74 complaints. one infant was hurt, suffering a bruise and bump to the head, when the handle broke, and the seat fell to the ground. if you have one of these send you a repair kit with a reinforcing bracket for the handle. enrollment in the nevada health insurance exchange, is topping numbers from last year. nearly 78-thousand people in nevada signed up for a plan, compared to last years enr

they work for the human interaction robotics lab. although you find this working on this concept to try and take out unwanted drones. we've seen stories of drones flying over the white house lawn or maybe going over sports complexes when they're not supposed to. what's the solution there? shooting them out of the sky? no. so these guys developed this technique which not only debilitates the drone almost instantly but can then transport it away from the crowd of people. >> it's a fantastic solution to an issue that's been popping up in the headlines for months. >>> an interesting training video. >> coming straight out of china. >> the video you don't want to miss and our take on it. >> whenever you do in life, be passionate about it. >>> plus, it's rescue time. >> it's an eastern brown snake. how this snake almost marked its territory. >>> promotional considerations provided by -- ing to progressive. so you'll be bringing home the bacon in no time. sorry. get a free quote at progressive.com. many prescriptions can cause dry mouth. act

coming up at five, kolo 8 news now's paul harris research happening at the robotics lab. the state's education savings account program is still on before families were receiving money. attorney general adam laxalt has filed a formal request that the nevada supreme court speed up a decision about the state's halted school choice program. the voucher-style program allows parents to claim more than five-thousad- dollars in state per- pupil school funds each year and use it for private school tuition or homeschooling. opponents argue the republican-backed program unconstitutionally diverts money from public schools. laxalt says parents moved their children to new schools assuming the program would launch in february... and now face the decision of thousands of hoverboards were given during the holidays. and thousands of accidents have happened since then... falls and fires. now the government is stepping in recommending sales should be stopped. and, you may be surprised be the amount of calories you're eating when you go out to eat. a new study saying the restaurant you choos

will robotics laboratory at the university of nevada has the potential to help thousands-- if not millions of people, with disabilities. that research involves brain-waves and camera technology. the lab is working on products that have sensors to help blind people... like a robotic glove that could allow blind people to find and grab an object. another idea is a finger sensor. trt: 17 mehdi rahimi, student, "the person would sense the same sensation that he would get when he moved his finger over those braille bumps.". u-n-r student mehdi rahimi says theres noththing else like this piece of technology on the market. right now these items are conceptual but the robotics lab is working to make them a reality. why did the sheep cross the road? to stop a high-speed new questions emerging about the death of eagles star glenn frey. frey suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis for years. now his manager reportedly believes the musician died in part because of medication he took for it. abc's david wright has script: nats take it easy, take it easy? for rock legend glenn frey, it was tough to take it easy? later in life? because of his 15 year battle with rheumatoid arthritis. and, t

surgeon judge what's happening when they're kind of pal mating within body which are robots so i learned at the labs at stanford working on bairvegly how to improve robotic devices to render feed tbak to a surgeon. but what i realize this was leading to is actually not for surgery but for development of a better generation of neuropros thet tick of robotic limb it is that would not only be able to mauve and controlled by thought but able to render touch feedback so that a person twails know it is how tightly they're gripping an october so they know if something is about to fall from their grasp. one of the things that the researchers told me is -- that people with prosthetics want to feel a love one's hand. touch is important. i learned about building of the 10,000 year clock is e-which is a prohibit in the foundation in san san francisco to reframe idea of how we think about time to build a clock to last 10,000 years without a human guardian and you can imagine the engineering -- problems involved in doing that. so this book has a lot of -- a lot of plans that deal with electronic and computers, by

today they're working with robots ... "5:08:45 if you press this turtle, it goes slower" ...crafts and much more in the steam lab. "5:02:57 it's a lot of fun and in the steam lab you get to do things you haven't done." teachers and the principal say after only six months, they're noticing a difference in their students. "5:15:10 i have seen so much more engagement and the confidence in their learning and ability to present and speak." hands-on learning we are offering, office referrals go down, kids are more interested." and many district leaders are interested in a future with more magnet schools. "we know that parents really like choice and we are looking for different learning models that can fit different learning styles for the children we have so we see magnet schools as a way to pursue some of those more innovative responses to learning and teaching." the district says the grant focuses on helping districts provide more balance in the demographic makeup of schools. johnson steam academy says it has seen dozens of new students. "5:18:40 what's different about a magnet school is you are trying to attract pe

>> we have robots on mars, next let's get some men and women on mars. >> jubulent engineers at nasa's jet propulsion lab witnessing the pathfinder rover landing on mars. almost 20 years later, their invention is a key plot point in a big budget hollywood film, "the martian". where an astronaut becomes stranded on the red planet. >> but if i can't get in contact with nasa none of this matters anyway. >> hollywood has long been fascinated with depicting humankind on mars dating back to a 1910 film by thomas edison. abbott and costello added a comedic twist in their film "abbott and costello go to mars". >> i hereby claim mars in the name of the united states of america. >> but it's this 2015 hollywood depiction, with an assist from nasa, that is getting people once again excited about space travel. >> i think it was the really best movie ever made about what life would be like to explore another planet. >> the martian is hollywood filming at its finest but what are nasa's real plans for a manned mission to mars. the team at jpl broke down the myths and realities about how close science truly is to putting

robotic arm. the self portrait shows curiosity at a so-called dune, where it has been digging in the dune collecting samples for lab analysis. >>> nasa says we're learning more about where the moon came from. evidence comes from rocks brought back by the the apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago. scientists had a theory that the moon formed after a small planet collided with the earth. they now say crash was a head on collision four and a half billion years ago not a glancing blow as thought. the impact release aid chunk of earth that became a one and only moon. evident is identical chemical signature, between the the moon roxanne volcanic rocks found in hawaii and arizona. >>> i'm glad we weren't here for that. >>> time for a check of the accu weather forecast with meteorologist melissa magee. >> very nice today, yesterday we had highs in the the lower 40's. the that was once again true today, walter. do you like 40's, how about the 50's. >> yes. >> yes. >> we will show you storm tracker six live double scan radar, no issues with precipitation. we had plenty of sunshine earlier today and tonight we have mostly

lab work. we will shareer, with investors what that looks like. look at otheru types of surgery that could be done roboticallye future, what are some promising areas there? anything on the horizon that stands out? the thing that has been growing nicely in the last year and a half has been in general surgery. : and rectal surgeries, hernia areaspair, these are where surgeons are finding real value and leading us to great outcomes for their patience. to asset surgery is going matter. we are thinking lung cancer -- those are tough surgeries and our technology can enable surgeries to do it minimally invasive lee. david: thank you very much. coming up, another nasdaq stock we are watching -- gopro. is that accompanied barely holding on or is a rebound right around the corner? ♪ david: welcome back to bloomberg markets. republicans square off in the first presidential debate of 2016 just 18 days before the all important first votes are cast in the aisle caucuses. it's proving to be a battleground for both parties. hillary clinton is now and that with bernie sanders. live from the site of the debate is john heileman

the plan is to bring in the bomb squad with a robot to handle this tube of dangerous chemicals. crews still have not been inside the lab where this explosion happened. the state fire marshal says they don't believe this was anything ruling out human error. the explosion shook the neighborhood. >> i heard a loud boom. the house shook a little bit. >> jennifer: around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, four workers were critically injured at the dow chemical plant in north andover, suffering from what hospital officials describe as shrapnel injuries and burns. doctors were told the injured came in contact with a chemical called trimethylaluminum. >> it's a chemical that's an irritant to the skin and anything it would come in contact with. >> this was a chemical that was reactive to water, and for some reason that will come out as part of the investigation, this chemical reacted with water, which resulted in the explosion. >> jennifer: before the four injured workers could enter the emergency room, they had to go through a decontamination in the hospital's parking lot. >> the patients were vigorously washed with water for an exten

lab that has been collecting and analyzing samples of martian sand for years. >>> that's incredible to look at, isn't it? >> everyone is doing selfies, even the robots on mars. >> they're taking a page out of hayes facebook history. >> only with my beads. >> selfie pictures are outlawed on mars. right? i don't know. right now in boston, windchill feels like 23 degrees. those are the temperatures we are to dress for. a bit of a breeze is taking the feel back a touch. 34 in wooste but with the breeze that i mentioned it's still pretty feisty. which-way to mile per hour winds it feels like it's 9 degrees in worcester. it feels like 23 in boston. those are the temperatures that we have to dress for if you have an early morning run or a bike ride. we do start with sunshine. as you can see mostly clear skies inside of 495, but then the clouds will be increasing as we will call it partly sunny. you can see the system that is to the north of us. this could mean snow flurries for the high country, possibly for ski resorts, nothing too significant, though, for us just clouds cover and in fact a warm front that will be pushing through this afternoon. once the

robot cars. i wouldn't be surprised at all to find out it's going to be ford. this is ford ceo putting a self-driving car plate on one of its cars. ford has a research lab in palo alto that's been getting a lot of attention lately >>> volkswagen is in extra, extra trouble. the california air resources board rejected vw's plan to rebuild cars. vw caught cheating air standards, the cars emitting 40 times the pollution allowed. vw engineers designed them that way. vw ceo will meet with epa and california officials today. it would appear, sam and laura, the recall is off. it leads to the question what happens now? if there's no recall f they're not able to renegotiate this, they'll have to pull those cars off the road permanently. they're paper weights. >> then what do people drive? >> probably not going to buy a new vw. i can suspect that. >> yes, with some reimbursement. >> yes, they'll buy them back. >>> lots of cars on the roadway this morning. that ties into our micro climate weather alert. right now our live satellite radar shows rain falling across the bay area. another cell making its way through san jose. >> let's check in with paulo reyes in downt

researcher or lab that competes to administer a project can choose from that list, building a team across institutions. for schwartz, that meant working with a project manager and a select group of robotics experts to build an arm before linking it to the brain. there are less than six people in the world that really know how to build a robotic arm, and they all come from mit, said schwartz. all these other yahoos said, oh, we know what we're doing. he added that hopkins and dean cayman's team spoke with him. it's like i'm sitting there, so you're going to be my boss, he said? schwartz was effectively locked out. the .gone had -- pentagon had shut the door, but darpa wanted him to keep working with monkeys and awarded him a $2 million contract for a study that would not only catapult his research on to 60 minutes and into the pages of "the new york times," but eventually would give him a shot at the human motor cortex. they had people doing the same kind of thing i was doing, a lot more people with a lot more money, and they didn't get anywhere, he said. other researchers were circling around the problem of how to link the brain to a multijointed prosthetic limb, but few researchers had

researcher or lab that competes to administer a project can choose from that list, building a team across institutions. for schwartz, that meant working with a project manager and a select group of robotics experts to build an arm before linking it to the brain. there are less than six people in the world that really know how to build a robotic arm, and they all come from mit. all these other yahoos said, oh, we can build a robot arm, we know what they're doing. he added both hopkins and dean cayman's team talked with him about joining their proposals. so you're going to be my boss, he said? needless to say, i didn't want get on any of those -- i didn't get on any of those teams. darpa funders were far from cutting him off. they wanted him to keep working with monkeys and awarded him a $2 million contract for a study that would not only catapult schwartz's research onto "60 minutes" and into the pages of "the new york times," but would eventually give him a shot at the human motor cortex. they had people doing the same kind of thing i was doing, a lot more people with a lot more money, and they didn't great anywhere, he said. they kept me as a backup plan. other researchers were circling