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    General purpose robots should not be weaponized: An open letter to the robotics industry and our communities
    After a lot of thoughtful discussion, deliberation, and debate with our colleagues, we have co-authored and signed an open letter to the robotics community.
    07 November 2022, by

    ‘Killer robots’ will be nothing like the movies show – here’s where the real threats lie
    Killer robots won’t be sentient humanoid robots with evil intent. This might make for a dramatic storyline and a box office success, but such technologies are many decades, if not centuries, away. It’s much simpler technologies we should be worrying about.
    19 October 2022, by

    UN fails to agree on ‘killer robot’ ban as nations pour billions into autonomous weapons research
    Given the pace of research and development in autonomous weapons, the U.N. meeting might have been the last chance to head off an arms race.
    16 January 2022, by
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    The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo

    Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...
    16 December 2020, by

    United Technologies acquires Rockwell Collins for $30 billion
    Aerospace conglomerate United Technologies is paying $30 billion to acquire Rockwell Collins in a deal that creates one of the world’s largest makers of civilian and defense aircraft components.&nbs...
    08 September 2017, by

    More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
    Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...
    23 June 2017, by



    Xponential 2017 in images
    The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...
    25 May 2017, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17
    Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...
    16 May 2017, by

    Technical challenges in machine ethics
    Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...
    08 February 2017, by

    The Digger Foundation competing for a $1million prize
    The DOME Project of the Digger Foundation has been shortlisted as finalist of the prestigious Robotics Award for Good taking place in Dubai in February 2017, where a $1million price will be awarded ...
    30 January 2017, by

    Robotics in harsh environments
    In the field of hostile conditions, outer space is often considered the epitome of harsh environments. However, it’s not necessary to travel so far in order to locate situations with extreme condi...
    04 November 2016, by

    Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
    In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...
    03 November 2016, by

    Unmanned and underneath: Stay in the know about underwater drones
    Editor's note: This article is adapted from a post from November 2015 and includes recent developments and updated spending figures.  In October 2016, the U.K. Royal Navy hosted Unmanned Warr...
    02 November 2016, by
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    ICRA 2016: Landmine Detection Challenge, with Edson Prestes

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edson Prestes, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an organizer of the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) 20...
    16 October 2016, by

    In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
    Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
    07 October 2016, by
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    Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
    06 August 2016, by

    Over 1,000 robots in use by US law enforcement, based on public data
    Download (PDF, 599KB) Background Robots are an increasingly common sight in U.S. police departments. These unmanned ground vehicles are used for roles that are deemed too hazardous for law enforce...
    12 July 2016, by

    Unmanned combat robots beginning to appear
    IAI's RoBattle unmanned, heavy duty, highly maneuverable, combat and support robotic system (UGV) is being shown at the Eurosatory 2016 Land and Airland Defence and Security tradeshow in Paris this...
    14 June 2016, by

    Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war
    Landmines are one of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare. In the military, they are considered the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses. The simplicity and cost-effect...
    28 April 2016, by

    Talking Machines: AI safety and the legacy of Bletchley Park, with Nick Patterson
    In episode four of season two, we talk about some of the major issues in AI safety, (and how they’re not really that different from the questions we ask whenever we create a new tool.) We take a lis...
    29 February 2016, by

    The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/22/16
    2/15/16 – 2/21/16 At the Center for the Study of the Drone In October, the White House announced that it will deploy a Predator drone unit to Cameroon. We have obtained the first photographic ...
    22 February 2016, by

    iRobot sells off defense & security division
    In a transaction valued at $45 million, iRobot has sold its Defense and Security division to Arlington Capital Partners. Sean Bielat, who takes over as the CEO, says the new company wil...
    04 February 2016, by

    ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10
    Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...
    01 December 2015, by

    Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW
    On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties....
    17 November 2015, by

    What you need to know about underwater drones
    Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April...
    16 November 2015, by

    Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin
    AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...
    15 October 2015, by

    Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
    Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...
    21 September 2015, by

    #eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios
    On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...
    16 September 2015, by

    Icelandic research institute unveils ethical robotics policy
    The Icelandic Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIIM) has become the first R&D centre in the world to adopt a policy that repudiates development of robotic technologies intended for military oper...
    16 September 2015, by

    Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
    FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
    24 June 2015, by

     
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