Germany may have won this year’s World Cup but Australia’s robot researchers have emerged victorious from a subtly different competition. The University of New South Wales’ rUNSWift robot team claimed…
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Robots, and autonomous systems in general, can cause anxiety and uncertainty, particularly as their use in everyday tasks becomes a more immediate possibility. In order to lessen at least some of that…
High-tech robots called PackBots will be unleashed during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil to help boost security and examine suspicious objects. The Brazilian government purportedly spent US$7.2 million…
James Dyson’s decision to fund a robotics laboratory at Imperial College London may not lead to the super advanced robot friends of our dreams, but what he has planned could make robotic domestic appliances…
January is a time when many of us seek to better ourselves. We want to learn a new skill or improve an existing one. A network designed especially for robots, RoboEarth, is being tested in the Netherlands…
The humble cockroach has provided inspiration for protection of fast-moving robots. A study from University of California…
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a network of NGOs and academics, has done us all a valuable service by drawing attention to the development of unmanned systems that are able to kill without direct…
“Coactive learning” – the ability for humans to give robots feedback-enabling robots to have flexibility in learning – has…
Dear robots: you have an image problem. Typically cast as either as vicious killing machines, cutesy pets or house slaves, robots are usually depicted in Western media as either something to be feared…
Robotic aircraft, or drones, are a much-debated military technology. But while this change in military capability challenges our shared senses of threat and protection, robotic aircraft have also been…
Whether you’re already planning what your mechanised personal assistant will look like in the future or worrying that machines will inherit the Earth, there is no denying that human beings are fascinated…
Computers have been an important part of many industries for decades already and have replaced humans in many jobs. But a new wave of technological development means that even positions that we once saw…
This is a transcript of a speech given at the British Science Festival in Newcastle on September 12. It’s always a pleasure to speak at the British (Science) Association, but there are two special reasons…
By analysing the flight of bees, the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute has learned how bees gain maximum fuel efficiency…
Researchers have found that a robot’s appearance affects people’s perception of how sociable and friendly it is. The one…
Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promised a bright future in which these human-like machines will become so advanced that we won’t be able to tell the difference between…
Anxiety about lethal autonomous robots has some substance. The state of play as currently constituted, however, already provides enough cause for concern. The Terminator scenario Monash associate professor…
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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 Digital Media and Cultures, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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