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When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, the USA. But when he was there, he did things in a different way. For example, he didn't like the doctors' white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn't like Adams because he was too different.

But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them. He spent a lot of time with children in hospital and often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh. When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called "The Gesundheit Institute", together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.

Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film (called Patch Adams), Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, "Adams is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who is a friend. I enjoyed playing him."

For Mary, she wants to make sure that her new robot doesn't look too much like a human. She wants people to just treat it as a machine-person. If it looks more like a human than a machine, she thinks users might find it a bit creepy and feel afraid. Mary also believes that robot faces don't need to look a lot like ours. Her research shows that we can enjoy communicating with robots whether or not they look like humans, because our brains are able to look for faces. Just put two circles on top of a robot's body, and we will see a face.

Dave feels differently. He believes that although at first we might be afraid when seeing a robot with a life-like face, we may soon get used to it. If robots are going to work closely with humans, they should look as much like us as possible. After all, faces are an important part of the way we communicate.

To make his robots look as much like real people as possible, Dave invented a special skin for their faces. With this skin, robots can show human-like expressions and appear to be angry, sad, happy or surprised. Dave's robots are also programmed to copy expressions. How? Just imagine his robot is looking at you. The cameras in its eyes send pictures of your face to its central computer!

Samuel can't understand why everyone is so surprised. "I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. So it is5 for me. I hear the notes and can keep them in mind—each and every note," says Samuel.

Samuel is now learning a piece of music. It has more than a thousand notes. It is so6 that many professional pianists can't play it. But Samuel says7, "It's all about super memory—I guess I have that gift (天赋)."

However, Samuel's gift to8 things doesn't stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the9 word for word.

Samuel is still young. He doesn't know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just10 to play beautiful music and continue his studies.

—I hope you won't ________.