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Study: Automation drives income inequality

MIT News 27 Nov 2022

New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.

Robots will open more doors than they close

Michael Lee and Science Robotics 14 Aug 2022

There is more that roboticists should be doing to advance the debate on robotic labor beyond the current obsessive focus on job-stealing robots.

Robots could help reaching UN goals of sustainable development

International Federation of Robotics (IFR) 12 Jun 2022

The use of robots plays an important role in reaching the sustainable development goals set out by the United Nations (17 SDGs). The International Federation of Robotics identified 13 SDGs, where robots help to create a better planet.

How to compete with robots

EPFL 01 May 2022

Swiss roboticists and economists from EPFL and University of Lausanne developed a method for estimating the probability of jobs being automated by future intelligent robots and suggesting career transitions with lower risks and minimal retraining effort.

Generation equality: Empowering and giving visibility to women in robotics

Marta Palau Franco and euRobotics AISBL 08 Mar 2022

On March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD) we celebrate the political, socioeconomic and cultural achievements of women and the women right’s movement towards gender equality. The aim of this article is to show what is being done and is available, especially in the European Union, for us to contribute as individuals and as a community towards gender equality in the field of robotics.

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Learning for Collaboration, Not Competition, with Jakob Foerster

Kegan Strawn 25 Jan 2022

Jakob Foerster, an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, dives into his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Robots can be companions, caregivers, collaborators — and social influencers

The Conversation 26 Nov 2021

People are hardwired to respond socially to technology that presents itself as even vaguely social. While this may sound like the beginnings of a Black Mirror episode, this tendency is precisely what allows us to enjoy social interactions with robots and place them in caregiver, collaborator or companion roles.

Ethics is the new Quality

Alan Winfield 30 May 2021

I took part in the first panel at the BSI conference The Digital World: Artificial Intelligence. The subject of the panel was AI Governance and Ethics. My co-panelist was Emma Carmel, and we wer...

On sustainable robotics

Alan Winfield 20 Apr 2021

The climate emergency brooks no compromise: every human activity or artefact is either part of the solution or it is part of the problem.I've worried about the sustainability of consumer electronics f...

Chad Jenkins’ talk – That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives (with video)

Robotics Today 16 Mar 2021

In this technical talk, Chad Jenkins from the University of Michigan posed the following question: "who will pay the cost for the likely mistakes and potential misuse of AI systems?" As he states, "we...

Ethics of connected and automated vehicles

AI4EU and the European Commission 11 Mar 2021

The European Commission has published a report by an independent group of experts on Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). This report advises on specific ethical issues raised by driverl...

The future of robotics research: Is there room for debate?

Debates on the Future of Robotics Research 22 Jan 2021

By Brian Wang, Sarah Tang, Jaime Fernandez Fisac, Felix von Drigalski, Lee Clement, Matthew Giamou, Sylvia Herbert, Jonathan Kelly, Valentin Pertroukhin, and Florian Shkurti As the field of robotic...

Shaping the UK’s future with smart machines: Findings from four ThinkIns with academia, industry, policy, and the public

Sabine Hauert 18 Dec 2020

The UK Robotics Growth Partnership (RGP) aims to set the conditions for success to empower the UK to be a global leader in Robotics and Autonomous Systems whilst delivering a smarter, safer, more pros...

Should robots be gendered? comments on Alan Winfield’s opinion piece

Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay 10 Dec 2020

The gendering of robots is something I’ve found fascinating since I first started building robots out of legos with my brother. We all ascribe character to robots, consciously or not, even when we u...

Why we need a robot registry

Silicon Valley Robotics 26 Nov 2020

Robots are rolling out into the real world and we need to meet the emerging challenges in responsible fashion but one that doesn’t block innovation. At the recent ARM Developers Summit 2020 I sh...

Why ethical robots might not be such a good idea after all

Alan Winfield 08 Feb 2018

Last week my colleague Dieter Vanderelst presented our paper: The Dark Side of Ethical Robots at AIES 2018 in New Orleans....

3Q: Daron Acemoglu on technology and the future of work

MIT News 02 Feb 2018

By Meg Murphy K. Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, is a leading thinker on the labor market implications of artificial intelligence, robotics, automation,...

Best practices in designing effective roadmaps for robotics innovation

Hallie Siegel and Lenka Pitonakova 22 Jan 2018

In the past decade, countries and regions around the globe have developed strategic roadmaps to guide investment and development of robotic technology. Roadmaps from the US, South Korea, Japan and EU ...

A round up of robotics and AI ethics: part 1 principles

Alan Winfield 09 Jan 2018

This blogpost is a round up of the various sets of ethical principles of robotics and AI that have been proposed to date, ordered by date of first publication. The principles are presented here (in fu...

Overview of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards – with survey on autonomous cars

Vladimir Estivill Castro 26 Oct 2017

The International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards (ICRESS-2017) took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 20th to 21st October 2017. Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira and João Silva Sequeira ...

How artificial intelligence will transform higher education

David Gann and Mark Dodgson 09 Aug 2017

As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the wa...

The agricultural labor conundrum

Frank Tobe 09 Aug 2017

Instead of worrying so much about robots taking away jobs, maybe we should worry more about wages being too low for robots to even get a chance. Seasonal labor for harvesting agricultural products, p...

Is AI powered government worth it?

Maëlle Gavet 27 Jul 2017

From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of propr...

China’s appetite now focused on artificial intelligence

Frank Tobe 27 Jul 2017

China has recently announced their long-term goal to become #1 in A.I. by 2030. They plan to grow their A.I. industry to over $22 billion by 2020, $59 billion by 2025 and $150 billion by 203...

Does the next industrial revolution spell the end of manufacturing jobs?

The Conversation 25 Jul 2017

By Jeff Morgan, Trinity College Dublin Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemploym...

Federal regulations pass next hurdle

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Jul 2017

This week's news is preliminary, but a U.S. house committee panel passed some new federal regulations which suggest sweeping change in the US regulatory approach to robocars....

Asimov’s Laws won’t stop robots harming humans so we’ve developed a better solution

The Conversation 17 Jul 2017

By Christoph Salge, Marie Curie Global Fellow, University of Hertfordshire How do you stop a robot from hurting people? Many existing robots, such as those assembling cars in factories, shut down ...

IROS Workshop: Best practices in designing roadmaps for robotics innovation

Hallie Siegel and AJung Moon 16 Jul 2017

Join us at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) for a full day workshop that will bring together international stakeholders in robotics to examine ...

Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action

Alex Kirkpatrick 14 Jul 2017

A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....