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How can we humans avoid harmful results of robot obedience?
People and machines need to be able to interact and communicate effectively. Right now we – and they – can’t. But without that, we risk missing the potential benefits of collaboration.
The FIRST robotics competition brings school students together to build a robot to complete a challenge. And it’s an inspiring way to encourage interest in STEM.
A machine has bested us at yet another intellectually challenging game. It shows artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly, but it doesn’t mean humans are redundant quite yet.
Researchers face stiff fines or even jail time if they inadvertently communicate with foreign colleagues about matters deemed to have a military use.
As machines get ever more complex as we strive to make them complete more complex tasks, it’s time to ask again: will they ever be able to think? But what is thinking anyway?
Robots that can learn to ‘see’ the world around them – and share their learning with other robots – will lead the next revolution in robotics.
2015 was a year where we expanded our view of the universe, embraced new technologies and got a hint of the profound changes to come.
Robots that can reproduce could improve their design in ways we wouldn’t think of but still within our control.
The droids in the Star Wars universe often play a key role in the movies. But how close are they to some of the real robots in our own universe?
There are growing concerns about robots, artificial intelligence and automation. Now two new organisations are seeking to produce responsible robots and advance beneficial AI.
Science fiction can be good at predictiong soem of the technologies of tomorrow. But designers take note: not all those ideas are welcome.
Amazon’s latest delivery drone looks strange - here’s how it flies.
There are possible emotional and social pitfalls to love and sex with robots, but does that mean we should ban them entirely?
Is genuine artificial consciousness possible? Should we protect jobs from automation? Your questions on AI and robots answered here.
Building genuine empathy into artificial intelligence is harder than it looks. It might be a while before we see the genuine article in robots.
Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
A call to ban sex robots is the same knee-jerk reaction faced by other technological advances, and as wrong-headed.
Sorting and folding clothes is a lot more difficult than when you’re a robot.
Top contributors
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Professor, Director of the Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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Reader in Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior University Teacher in Robotics, University of Sheffield
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Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Australian National University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Professor, School of Systems and Computing, UNSW
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Lecturer in Robotic Systems, University of Manchester
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School