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    American law needs a reboot when it comes to robots
    Nearly 60 years of American case law indicate that while robot technology has been developing by leaps and bounds, the courts’ concept of robots is confused and largely stuck in the past. If we ar...
    09 March 2016, by

    Could we make a moral machine?
     Could we make a moral machine? A robot capable of choosing or moderating its actions on the basis of ethical rules? This was how I opened my IdeasLab talk at the World Economic Forum 2016. Th...
    02 March 2016, by

    White House economic report looks to robotics for the future
    For the first time, robotics was featured in the annual Economic Report of the President. The hefty 435 page report from the President and the Council of Economic Advisors was released to Congress on ...
    23 February 2016, by and
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    Automation and Employment, with Michael Osborne

    In this episode Andrew Vaziri speaks with Mike Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. They discuss how advancements in artificial intelligence may change the w...
    20 February 2016, by

    540 little robots and 29 drones celebrate Chinese New Year
    In a TV spectacle celebrating the Chinese New Year and seen by more than 640 million viewers, 540 Chinese-made robots danced to a song sung by a Chinese superstar and 29 neon-colored drones flew in u...
    10 February 2016, by

    Turning the lens on robotics reporting: An interview with New York Times technology reporter John Markoff
    If you are working in the field of robotics or AI, you may be used to fielding calls from journalists wanting to better understand the technology. But not all journalists are created equal. Pulitzer-P...
    28 January 2016, by



    UK Royal Society wants to hear your thoughts on machine learning
    The UK Royal Society would like to hear your thoughts on machine learning – you are invited to answer some or all of the questions set out in a Call for Evidence here. The closing date for evidence ...
    23 December 2015, by

    BCG study finds that reshoring with robots works
    Two important findings from Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) recent survey of US manufacturing executives: (1) Of those who plan to add capacity, most plan to do so in the US, and (2) a rising perc...
    10 December 2015, by

    Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90
    Robotics Industry Association | Joseph F. Engelberger, an engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered the robotics field, died peacefully at his home this morning, December 1, 2015, in Newtown, Connecticu...
    01 December 2015, by

    On the ethics of research in robotics, with Raja Chatila
    In this video lecture, IEEE Fellow Raja Chatila shares his views on [tweetquote]why roboticists are duty-bound to educate the wider public on the state of advanced robotics[/tweetquote], and also t...
    25 November 2015, by

    ‘Rise of the Robots’ receives Business Book of the Year award
    One of our choices for your summer reading -- Martin Ford's 'Rise of the Robots' -- won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award at a ceremony held last week in New York. ...
    23 November 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

    How ethical is your ethical robot?
    If you're in the business of making ethical robots, then sooner or later you have to face the question: how ethical is your ethical robot? If you've read my previous blog posts then you will probably...
    13 November 2015, by

    Global majority want autonomous weapons banned: New report
    The majority of people are against the use of autonomous weapons capable of identifying and destroying targets without human input, according to a new survey by researchers at the University of Britis...
    11 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

    25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2015
    Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer, and heralded symbolic logic by demonstrating future applications for the universal computing machine that Charles Babbage proposed. She was e...
    13 October 2015, by , and

    Why we need journalism about machine learning
    [clear] Talking Machines is in the process of raising funds to defray the cost of producing our first season and to help us start production on our second season. On the show we’ve talked about h...
    25 September 2015, by

    Let’s hope that #IStandWithAhmed will help improve diversity in robotics
    If you've been following the twittersphere you've heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested after the digital clock he built to impress his highschool teachers was mistak...
    22 September 2015, by

    ‘World’s Most Dangerous Rivalry’ stoked by bowing Abe robot at CIROS
    The long-term rivalry between China and Japan, often characterised as the "World's Most Dangerous Rivalry," was exacerbated at the CIROS show held in Shanghai last week by a bowing Prime Minister Abe...
    17 July 2015, by

    Study shows public perception of robotics generally positive in EU, but declining
    A major study into European attitudes toward automation has found that while almost two thirds of people polled feel generally positive about robots, public acceptance of them in the EU is in dec...
    25 June 2015, by and

    WeRobot 2015 Panel 3: Robotics governance, with Peter Asaro, Jason Millar, Kirsten Thomasen and David Post
    [clear] What are the challenges facing governance and regulation of emerging robotic technologies? Peter Asaro of the New School, Jason Millar of Queen’s University, Kristen Thomasen of the Unive...
    23 June 2015, by

    In the future, robots will be ubiquitous
    The July/August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine has a number of dispatches from the frontlines of the robotics revolution....
    20 June 2015, by

    WeRobot 2015 Panel 2: Robot passports, with Anupam Chander
    Anupam Chander’s paper, “Robots, the Internet of Things and the future of trade,” is the first effort to locate and analyze these complimentary technologies within an international trading frame...
    11 June 2015, by

    Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence on privacy in the age of machine learning
    In episode eleven we chat with Neil Lawrence from the University of Sheffield. We talk about the problems of privacy in the age of machine learning, and the responsibilities that come with using mach...
    22 May 2015, by

    WeRobot 2015 Panel 1: Anthropomorphizing robots, with Kate Darling
    As we increasingly create spaces where robotic technology interacts with humans, our tendency to project lifelike qualities onto robots raises questions around use and policy. In this We Robot 2015 pa...
    20 May 2015, by

    Teaching robots to behave ethically
    What should a robot nurse do when a cancer patient begs for more morphine but the supervising doctor is not available to approve the request? Should a self-driving car prevent its owner from taking ov...
    05 May 2015, by and

    Steffi Paepcke on Robots, women and design: Opportunities abound
    This piece was written by Steffi Paepcke as a precursor to the Silicon Valley Robotics panel titled “Women in Robotics: Challenge or Opportunity?”  Let me get the basic statistics out of t...
    29 April 2015, by

    Why Google’s robot personality patent isn’t what it appears to be
    [tweetquote]Google’s new patent: Less about creating robot personalities than collecting yours.[/tweetquote]...
    16 April 2015, by

    The future of work: Robots, unions and globalization
    Last week Bloomberg News asked the question: What's destroying middle-class wages? and suggested three hypotheses: robots, unions and China. This week SingularityHUB launched a series exploring th...
    08 April 2015, by

    Peter Asaro: Challenges and approaches to developing policy for robots
    As part of the Center for Information Technology Policy (CIPT) Luncheon speaker series, Peter Asaro gives a talk on developing policy for robots. ...
    02 April 2015, by

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