If you were on Facebook this weekend, you no doubt saw that it was flooded with oddly puerile cartoon characters that look like something out of an early-2000s children’s show. They’re called Avatars, ...

Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain-computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol ...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins works on the Surface Avatar laptop computer in the Columbus laboratory module to study ways, such as haptic controls, user interfaces, ...