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Assisted or fully automated system? Insurance group warns of grey areas | Insurance Business UK
Alex Kirkpatrick
02 Aug 2017
As driverless technology makes its way onto roads, UK insurers want clarity when it comes to assisted and automated systems.
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Robot behaviour is creeping beyond our control | Financial Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
02 Aug 2017
Given a particular input, one can often predict how a person will respond. That is not the case for the most intelligent machines in our midst. The creators of AlphaGo — a computer program...
Facebook’s artificial intelligence robots shut down after they start talking to each other in their own language | Independent
Alex Kirkpatrick
31 Jul 2017
Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. The two chatbots came to create their own changes to English ...
Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 won by Australian budget bot | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
31 Jul 2017
Cartman - a budget-priced robot from Australia - has triumphed in an annual contest to create a machine that can identify, pick up and stow warehouse goods.
The bot was designed from scratch to take ...
UK government’s drone collision report criticised | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jul 2017
Manufacturers have criticised a UK government report on the danger of drones colliding with aircraft. The Department for Transport (DfT) report recommended registration and competency testing, saying ...
US self-driving car bill heads to the House floor | Engadget
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jul 2017
It's another tiny step forward for autonomous vehicles.
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Watch a test of anti-drone weapons, from shotguns to superdrones | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
26 Jul 2017
IF DRONES COULD eat other drones, the SparrowHawk would sit somewhere near the top of the flying-robot foodchain.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are arguing about the future of AI | Business Insider
Alex Kirkpatrick
26 Jul 2017
The billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are fighting publicly about the future of artificial intelligence.
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DJI has responded to reports of its drones randomly falling out of the sky | Fortune
Alex Kirkpatrick
25 Jul 2017
DJI, a premier drone-maker, is facing reports that its most consumer-friendly aircraft is randomly plunging from the sky, a cause for concern over safety issues.
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India won’t allow self-driving cars as they will take away jobs, says minister | Independent
Alex Kirkpatrick
25 Jul 2017
India’s road transport and highways minister, Nitin Gadkari, told reporters that the country would not allow autonomous vehicles because they will take away much-needed jobs.
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Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor | New Scientist
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 Jul 2017
A submersible robot has spotted what representatives from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) say is likely missing melted nuclear fuel from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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3 major fears about robotics that simply aren’t true | Robotiq
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 Jul 2017
Robots have become an integral part of the manufacturing industry, but they’re also moving into other industries as well. As they continue to become a larger part of our society, people are voicing ...
Teaching drones how too crash safely | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
21 Jul 2017
A husband and wife team believe they have the solution to one of the biggest hurdles to drone package delivery.
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Professor Einstein is a fun, wacky robot that loves to talk about science | IEEE Spectrum
Alex Kirkpatrick
21 Jul 2017
When I tell my daughters, ages 6 and 9, that I have a new robot to show them, they perk up. I then take Professor Einstein out of the box.
“Ahhhh!” they both cry, wide-eyed.
My wife walks in...
This startup is using Uber and Lyft drivers to bring self-driving cars to market faster | The Verge
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Jul 2017
Former Tesla engineers launch a high-definition mapping company.
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A keen eyed robot goes to work for a paralyzed veteran | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Jul 2017
IN DECEMBER OF 2016, a team of researchers showed up at Romy Camargo's house with a better-than-average holiday gift. The front of the nondescript silver box lowered—like one of those spaceship door...
Swimming robot probes radioactive water at Fukushima’s nuclear reactor | Sky News
Alex Kirkpatrick
19 Jul 2017
The robot, nicknamed "Little Sunfish", has captured previously unseen shots of underwater damage at the crippled nuclear plant.
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Panel approves bill to boost testing of self-driving cars | Phys.Org
Alex Kirkpatrick
19 Jul 2017
A House subcommittee has approved legislation designed to allow automakers to increase the testing of self-driving cars on U.S. roads.
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Security company is replacing a mall robot that fell into a fountain to the Internet’s delight | New York Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
19 Jul 2017
This is probably not the security droid we’re looking for. The egg-shaped robot, known as the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, drew sympathy and jeers on Monday after it stumbled down a set of steps and ...
Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle | New Scientist
Alex Kirkpatrick
18 Jul 2017
Amazon, UPS, Domino’s Pizza and other companies planning drone delivery services may be heading for discord. A preliminary NASA study has discovered that people find the noise of drones more annoyin...
BB-8 flies? Japanese drone ball tours Space Station | Space.com
Alex Kirkpatrick
18 Jul 2017
Space watchers have seen footballs, mini-soccer balls and water balls float through the International Space Station — but never a drone ball. Now, new footage of a spherical Japanese robot shows i...
This robot is designed to keep people safe, but it fell in a fountain and couldn’t get up | Business Insider
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 Jul 2017
The Knightscope K5 security robot's job is to be on the look out for crime. It might also want to keep an eye on where it's going. Officer workers at the Georgetown Harbour office and retail space in ...
Beating the heat: Thermal Testing [Waymo] in Death Valley | Medium
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 Jul 2017
In early spring, our self-driving minivans visited Lake Tahoe during record snowfall. Now, we’re tackling the other end of the temperature spectrum. After a three-day road trip from Davis Dam to Las...
Watch the world’s fastest drone drag-race into the record books | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
Blink and you might actually miss the Drone Racing League’s new RacerX drone, which has just been clocked at a record speed of nearly 180 miles per hour.
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Want a robot that can really feel? Give it whiskers | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
AMONG THE MANY reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don’t have sensory wh...
China’s grip on maps hinders self-driving car makers | The Wall Street Journal
Alex Kirkpatrick
13 Jul 2017
China is creating roadblocks for U.S. auto makers and tech companies to bringing self-driving cars to the world’s largest auto market.
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Lifelike robots joke about taking over the world, say that humans are not the most ethical creatures | The Independent
Alex Kirkpatrick
13 Jul 2017
A pair of lifelike robots have debated the future of humanity at a technology conference in Hong Kong. The machines, named Han and Sophia, discussed people’s limitations and robot’s plans to take ...
Audi’s new A8 shows how robocars can work with humans | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
11 Jul 2017
In 2012 the engineers working on Google’s self-driving car realized they had a problem. Early testers had agreed to always watch the road in case of emergencies, but many didn’t—and it put them...
Asimov’s laws won’t stop robots harming humans so we’ve developed a better solution | Scientific American
Alex Kirkpatrick
11 Jul 2017
Instead of laws to restrict robot behavior, robots should be empowered to pick the best solution for any given scenario.
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Undersea robot reveals ‘schools’ of animals in deep scattering layers | Phys.org
Alex Kirkpatrick
10 Jul 2017
Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths, forming layers that can be hundreds of meters thick and may extend horizontally for dozens or even hundreds of kilometers. Because the...
Could a robot be president? | Politico
Alex Kirkpatrick
10 Jul 2017
...Now, a small group of scientists and thinkers believes there could be an alternative, a way to save the president—and the rest of us—from him- or herself. As soon as technology advances far eno...
This robot-made pizza in Silicon Valley should terrify Domino’s and Pizza Hut | Business Insider
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Jun 2017
Robots could kill off huge swaths of jobs in the future — but at least they come bearing pizza. Founded in 2015, Zume Pizza uses robotics and artificial intelligence to make pizza more quickly. The ...
Amazon’s vision for the future: delivery drone beehives in every city | The Verge
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Jun 2017
Amazon’s drone delivery program stopped being a joke a while ago, but the company still has to overcome serious challenges to make the technology actually work. One of these is getting drones near e...
Pint-pulling robot put through its paces in Yorkshire | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jun 2017
Students from the University of Leeds have created a robot which they claim is capable of pulling the perfect pint. The team, from the School of Mechanical Engineering, worked with local engineering c...
A job plan for robots and humans | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jun 2017
One perk of working for Melonee Wise’s startup Fetch is that if your feet are tired you can glide around the office on the back of a squat wheeled robot. More usually, she and her roughly 50 employe...
Should robot artists be given copyright protection? | Phys.Org
Alex Kirkpatrick
26 Jun 2017
When a group of museums and researchers in the Netherlands unveiled a portrait entitled The Next Rembrandt, it was something of a tease to the art world. It wasn't a long lost painting but a new artwo...
