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Engaging the public in robotics: 11 tips from 5,000 robotics events across Europe
SPARC
21 Nov 2019
Europe is focussed on making robots that work for the benefit of society. This requires empowering future roboticists and users of all ages and backgrounds. In its 9th edition, the European Robotics W...
Summer travel diary: Reopening cold cases with robotic data discoveries
Oliver Mitchell
14 Aug 2019
Traveling to six countries in eighteen days, I journeyed with the goal of delving deeper into the roots of my family before World War II. As a child of refugees, my parents’ narrative is missing...
Robots can play key roles in repairing our infrastructure
Oliver Mitchell
30 Jun 2019
Pipeline inspection robot
I was on the phone recently with a large multinational corporate investor discussing the applications for robotics in the energy market. He expressed his frustration about t...
My top three policy and governance issues in AI/ML
Alan Winfield
22 Jun 2019
In preparation for a recent meeting of the WEF global AI council, we were asked the question:
What do you think are the top three policy and governance issues that face AI/ML currently?...
Joining forces to boost AI adoption in Europe
SPARC
21 Jun 2019
Europe is gearing up to launch an Artificial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (AI PPP) that brings together AI, data, and robotics. At its core is a drive to lead the world in the development a...
The social animals that are inspiring new behaviours for robot swarms
The Conversation
12 May 2019
By Edmund Hunt, University of Bristol
From flocks of birds to fish schools in the sea, or towering termite mounds, many social groups in nature exist together to survive and thrive. This cooperativ...
An updated round up of ethical principles of robotics and AI
Alan Winfield
12 May 2019
This blogpost is an updated 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....
Robots guarded Buddha’s relics in a legend of ancient India
The Conversation
28 Apr 2019
By Adrienne Mayor
As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century B.C., engineers in Hellenistic Alexandr...
2018 industrial robot sales barely eke out year-over-year gain
Frank Tobe
21 Apr 2019
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR), at a press conference here last week, announced preliminary 2018 figures for the industrial sector of the robotics industry. Last year set another recor...
Automate 2019 startup showdown recap
Oliver Mitchell
21 Apr 2019
It’s been two years since the last time I judged the Automate Startup Competition. More than any other trade show contest, this event has been an oracle of future success. In following up with t...
AI for society: creating AI that supports equality, transparency, and democracy
The Royal Society
27 Feb 2019
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
The Royal Society’s artificial intelligence (AI) programme explores the frontiers of AI technologies, and their implications for individuals, communit...
What do California disengagement reports tell us?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 Feb 2019
California has released the disengagement reports the law requires companies to file and it's a lot of data. Also worth noting is Waymo's own blog post on their report where they report their miles ...
The news from CES is there wasn’t much news from CES
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
25 Jan 2019
My feet are aching, as usual, after 3 days on the CES show floor, and the question people always ask others there is "what have you seen that was interesting?"
I won't say I didn't see anything int...
Robocar year in review for 2018
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
07 Jan 2019
In spite of what most are writing, it was a year of much progress.
A number of other summaries of 2018 in robocars have called it a bad year, the year it all went south, even the year the public re...
The metaphysical impact of automation
Oliver Mitchell
16 Dec 2018
Earlier this month, I crawled into Dr. Wendy Ju‘s autonomous car simulator to explore the future of human-machine interfaces at CornellTech’s Tata Innovation Center. Dr. Ju recently moved ...
The Montréal Declaration: Why we must develop AI responsibly
The Conversation
09 Dec 2018
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
I have been doing research on intelligence for 30 years. Like most of my colleagues, I did not get involved in the field with the aim of producing technologi...
Waymo soft launches in Phoenix, but…
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
09 Dec 2018
Waymo announced today they will begin commercial operations in the Phoenix area under the name "Waymo One." Waymo has promised that it would happen this year, and it is a huge milestone, but I can't a...
The end of parking as we know it
Oliver Mitchell
02 Dec 2018
A day before snow hindered New York commuters, researchers at the University of Iowa and Princeton identified the growth of urbanization as the leading cause for catastrophic storm damage. Wednesday&#...
Accessing the power of quantum computing, today
Oliver Mitchell
25 Nov 2018
Two weeks ago, I participated on a panel at the BCI Summit exploring the impact of quantum computing. As a neophyte to the subject, I marveled at the riddle posed by Grover’s Algorithm. Imagine...
Worried about AI taking over the world? You may be making some rather unscientific assumptions
The Conversation
10 Nov 2018
Eleni Vasilaki, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock
Should we be afraid of artificial ...
The race for robot clairvoyance
Oliver Mitchell
09 Nov 2018
This week a Harvard Business School student challenged me to name a startup capable of producing an intelligent robot – TODAY! At first I did not understand the question, as artificial intellige...
Waymo is first, but is Cruise second, and how can you tell?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Nov 2018
A recent Reuters story suggests Cruise is well behind schedule with one insider saying "nothing is on schedule" and various reports of problems not yet handled. This puts doubt into GM's announced ...
Educating the workforce of the future, in the age of accelerations
Oliver Mitchell
24 Oct 2018
I have two kids in college and one of my biggest concerns is their knowledge that what they have labored hard to acquire will become obsolete by the time of graduation. Our age is driven by the hypers...
What happens to human driven cars in the robocar world?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Oct 2018
I love to talk about the coming robocar world. Over the next few decades, more and more trips will be made in robocars, and more and more people will reduce or give up car ownership to live the robota...
New York: The gateway to industry 4.0
Oliver Mitchell
06 Oct 2018
As Hurricane Florence raged across the coastline of Northern Carolina, 600 miles north the 174th Attack Wing Nation Guard base in Syracuse, New York was on full alert. Governor Cuomo just hung up with...
The pedestrian experiment
Alan Winfield
10 Sep 2018
Followers of this blog will know that I have been working for some years on simulation-based internal models - demonstrating their potential for ethical robots, safer robots and imitati...
Robots and jobs
SPARC
29 Aug 2018
Will a robot take my job?
Media headlines often speculate about robots taking our jobs. We’re told robots will replace swaths of workers from taxi drivers to caregivers. While some believe this wi...
Waymo’s left turns frustrate other drivers
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
29 Aug 2018
This week's hot story was again from Amir at The Information and there is even more detail in the author's Twitter thread....
Uber might sell its robocar division, Nuro opens first delivery pilot in Scottsdale
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Aug 2018
The newsletter The Information reports Uber's investors are pushing Uber to sell its self-drive division to some other large player. The division has, of course, been nothing but trouble for Uber, an...
Enrico Krog Iversen’s impact on the robotics industry
Frank Tobe
23 Aug 2018
Denmark is a country with less than 6 million people but a very successful working robotics cluster that performs as a funder, equalizer and instigator. Denmark is 6th in global robot density (a measu...
Ice-bot cometh: Building self-reliant unmanned systems
Oliver Mitchell
23 Aug 2018
Last June, a massive dust storm engulfed Mars and immobilized the most famous robots in the galaxy, Opportunity and Curiosity. This is not the first time that Martian dirt has prevented Opportunity fr...
Recent Waymo announcements are slightly underwhelming
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
09 Aug 2018
Waymo recently announced two new partnerships for their fleet of robotaxis....
Autonomous robot evolution: from cradle to grave
Alan Winfield
31 Jul 2018
A few weeks ago we had the kick-off meeting, in York, of our new 4 year EPSRC funded project Autonomous Robot Evolution (ARE): cradle to grave. We - Andy Tyrrell and Jon Timmis (York), Emma Hart ...
Robots may say NO to war
Andreagiovanni Reina
31 Jul 2018
Robots become every day more 'intelligent'. What if robots were intelligent enough to say NO to war? This would be a happier future.
This short film is a light-hearted comedy that aims to launch an...
Will you need geeky glasses to avoid motion sickness in your robocar?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
31 Jul 2018
For a lot of people, being a passenger in a car can easily lead to motion sickness, particularly if they try to do something like looking down to read a book or stare at a phone. Not everybody gets th...
Disney launches new era of autonomy with gravity defying stickmen and more
Oliver Mitchell
25 Jul 2018
Ever since the première of “Steamboat Willie” in 1928, The Walt Disney Company has pushed the envelope of imagination. Mickey Mouse is still more popular worldwide than any single human a...
