Toward animal-friendly robots
Semi-autonomous and autonomous machines and robots can become moral machines using annotated decision trees containing ethical assumptions or justifications for interactions with animals.
This little robot swims through pipes and finds out if they’re leaking – Fast Company
A new low-cost robot, the U.S. winner of the 2018 James Dyson Award, is designed to find leaks in pipes early, both to save water and to avoid bigger damage later from bursting water mains. Called ...
This robot passes through pipes to see where they're leakingZME Science
This robot passes through pipes to see where they're leaking
Hospitals will use robot ducks to comfort kids with cancer – Engadget
Aflac's robotic therapy ducks have started waddling their way to children's cancer hospitals nationwide after making their debut at CES earlier this year. The company is distributing the robotic waterfowl ...
Robot ducks are comforting children in hospitalTechRadar
Robot ducks are comforting children in hospital
Robots can become ‘racist and sexist’ all on their own, study finds – The Sun
ROBOTS can develop prejudices like "racism and sexism" all on their own, a shocking new study has found. Artificial intelligence experts performed thousands of simulations on robot brains, revealing ...
AI robots can develop prejudices, just like us mere mortalsEngadget
Robots could become RACIST or SEXIST says report - 'Prejudice is hard to reverse'Express.co.uk
AI robots can develop prejudices, just like us mere mortals
Robots could become RACIST or SEXIST says report - 'Prejudice is hard to reverse'
AI has already been weaponised – and it shows why we should ban ‘killer robots’
A dividing line is emerging in the debate over so-called killer robots. Many countries want to see new international law on autonomous weapon systems that can target and kill people without human intervention. But those countries already developing such weapons are instead trying to highlight their supposed benefits.
Bat-inspired Robat uses echolocation to map, navigate environment
The “Robat” is a fully autonomous, four-wheeled terrestrial robot with bat-like qualities that uses echolocation, also called bio sonar, to move through novel environments while mapping them based only on sound. It was developed at Tel Aviv University (TAU). Bats use echolocation to map novel environments, navigating them by emitting sound then extracting information from…
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‘Killer Robots’ film warns of perils of automation – FRANCE 24
In the film, Pozdorovkin points to deaths at a VW factory in Germany, in self-driving Tesla vehicles in the United States and from an explosives-carrying robot used by Dallas police to end an armed ...
Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot – Seattle Times
Illustrations that accompany the patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in 2016, show a cage-like enclosure around a small work space sitting atop the kind of robotic trolleys ...