Academics boycott South Korea university on ‘killer robot’ fears – Financial Times

More than 50 of the world's top robotics experts are boycotting one of South Korea's leading universities, KAIST, over its decision to open an artificial intelligence weapons lab they fear can develop “killer robots”. The academic boycott, which was ...
Leading AI researchers boycott Korean university over its work on ...The Verge
Korean university warned of boycott over 'killer robot' fearsTimes Higher Education (THE)

Italian robot concierge latest deployment of AI – The National

Robby Pepper can answer questions in Italian, English and German, which is useful for an international hotel concierge. Billed as Italy's first robot guest welcomer, the humanoid will be deployed all season at a hotel on the popular lake Garda to help ...
Italy's robot concierge a novelty on the way to better AIABC News
Meet Italy's robot conciergeStuff.co.nz
Italy's first robot concierge: Multi-lingual humanoid will be deployed at a Lake Garda hotel to relieve desk staff ...Daily Mail

NASA Wants to Send Swarms of Robot Bees to Mars. For Exploration, of Course – ScienceAlert

We're talking swarms of robot bees. On Mars. These so-called Marsbees – or "flapping wing aerospace architectures" to call them by their technical name – could operate in groups to measure atmospheric conditions or take samples before returning to home ...
NASA has a plan to put robot bees on MarsInhabitat
Robot bees could help NASA expand capabilities of future Mars RoversInternational Business Times, India Edition
Space Bees: Expert Explains NASA's Idea to Send Swarm of Robots to MarsSputnik International
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Robotics Summit Preview: engineering the future of robotics

The robotics and intelligent systems sector is currently undergoing rapid growth, presenting many opportunities for technical professionals seeking new challenges and prospects. But while the robotics opportunity landscape is very large, the complexity of developing robotics systems has limited innovation, becoming a gating factor for the production of new classes of commercial useful robotic systems…

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