The robots in the DARPA Robotics Challenge can open doors and drive cars. But developing machines that can think for themselves is more tricky.
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If you leaving school today to embark on a career, what should you study to protect your job from automation and outsourcing?
A new robotic tentacle has the potential to revolutionise keyhole surgery.
Shaking hands builds trust, and the same applies whether it’s a human or robot hand you’re shaking.
The more we automate jobs, the more we need to find new jobs for people, especially if the government wants us to stay in the workforce longer. That’s going to take some clever thinking.
Some economists and others have argued smart machines are increasingly stealing our jobs. In fact, the opposite may be true.
More STEM education isn’t a bad thing, but if we want to safeguard our jobs from being taken by machines, we need more emphasis on the humanities.
Artificial intelligence is the future, but are computers ready to take a seat at the board?
The debate over whether lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) – often called ‘killer robots’ – should be banned continues, although it’s far from settled.
There are very few jobs that are can’t be done in principle by robots and artificial intelligence. What will you do when a robot takes your job?
Should future wars be fought by autonomous systems? Or do they pose such a threat that they should be banned? These issues are being debated this week by diplomats from around the world.
Should robots be treated with the same concern as any other intelligent being? Or are they unnatural, dangerous, to be eliminated?
Though set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” it isn’t hard to see in the Star Wars films a vision of our own not so distant future. But Anthony Jones, a physician with a long background in health…
In Australia, there are reports that up to half a million of existing jobs could be taken over by robotics or machines run by artificial intelligence. So with smarter computers taking on more of the work…
Don’t be mesmerised by cool apps and flashy new gizmos – the top technology inventions of the year are ones that will have a lasting effect. Most are advances in fields that are already changing us. Some…
Your autonomous vacuum cleaner cleans your floors and there is no great harm if it occasionally bounces into things or picks up a button or a scrap of paper with a phone number. But then again this latter…
Lost and thirsty in the Australian bush, Outback Joe waited eight years. And finally, in September this year, he was found – by a flying robot. Outback Joe is not a real person, but for a week each September…
How do you rate your chances of completing a transcontinental road trip? What if you can’t drive and don’t have car? What if you can’t even move unaided? In fact, what about if you’re not even human? Tweeting…
There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robots…
The whistle has just been blown on one of the most thrilling events on the international sporting calendar. It took place in Brazil and pitted teams from all over the world against each other, each hoping…
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Director of the Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Computer Science, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures, The University of Queensland
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Leverhulme Fellow and Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge