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When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?
Open Roboethics Initiative
22 Jul 2014
A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...
Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision
Open Roboethics Initiative
21 Jul 2014
Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...
Alleged drone ‘Peeping Tom’ photo reveals perils of drone related journalism | Forbes
Hallie Siegel
15 Jul 2014
Last month a Seattle woman said that a drone made her nervous because it was flying outside of her window. Early media reports called the device a flying “Peeping Tom.” Soon afterwards, nat...
Should we let robots take our jobs? | DNews
John Payne
13 Jul 2014
“In a recent interview, the co-founder of Google discussed how he thinks people shouldn't work so much, and we start having robots do most of the work! Should robots be taking our jobs? Laci dis...
Facebook – Our ffriendly automated identity bender
Jason Millar
11 Jul 2014
I like Star Wars. I like technology. I like philosophy. I like teaching. I like the occasional meme. I like robots. I like a lot of things.
But if I were to give an accurate account of the things t...
Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?
Open Roboethics Initiative
08 Jul 2014
Photo by Roland Dobbins, Wikimedia
A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous...
How do you want to interface with your autonomous car? Poll results
Open Roboethics Initiative
07 Jul 2014
Those of you who watched the 80’s TV series “Knight Rider” might remember the dialogue between Michael Knight and its super-car, KITT. Some of you might be more familiar with scenes between “J...
My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
30 Jun 2014
You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....
Autonomous vehicles: A powerful tool if you can get the problem right
Peter Norton
25 Jun 2014
“When the American people, through their Congress, voted for a twenty-six-billion-dollar highway program, the most charitable thing to assume is that they hadn’t the faintest notion of what they w...
Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?
Open Roboethics Initiative
24 Jun 2014
We interact with gadgets and devices everyday … some have blinking lights, some play sounds, and some can even decipher our voice commands. When it comes to interfacing with a device as exciting an...
If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results
Open Roboethics Initiative
23 Jun 2014
Image credit: Craig Berry
Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous car into the mix, things get even more interesting....
An ethical dilemma: When robot cars must kill, who should pick the victim?
Jason Millar
11 Jun 2014
Image credit: Craig Berry
We are moving closer to having driverless cars on roads everywhere, and naturally, people are starting to wonder what kinds of ethical challenges driverless cars will pose. ...
Reader poll: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?
Open Roboethics Initiative
10 Jun 2014
Image source: Karora via Wikipedia.
There may be times when an accident or a death is unavoidable while an autonomous car is controlling the wheel.
What should an autonomous car do when such ...
Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
09 Jun 2014
Our previous poll, which asked (among other questions) whether kids should be allowed to ride in autonomous vehicles by themselves, revealed that responsibility is a key issue for most people. Are we ...
Reader Poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?
Open Roboethics Initiative
27 May 2014
We conducted two polls last month in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative to get a sense of what people think about autonomous cars. Our polls started some interesting discussions arou...
Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ autonomous cars?
Open Roboethics Initiative
26 May 2014
Share your opinion and take our next reader poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?Reader poll results: Earlier this month, when we asked people about your general thoughts on autonomous c...
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RoboRoach, with Bill Reith and Oliver Bendel
Ron Vanderkley
16 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Bill Reith, an engineer at Backyard Brains. The company develops RoboRoach, the world’s first commercially available “cyborg”, which was successfully ...
Ron Arkin and Noel Sharkey debate lethal autonomous weapons at UN
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2014
The Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) is currently underway at the United Nations in Geneva to discuss questions relating to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons syst...
Reader poll: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ an autonomous car?
Open Roboethics Initiative
13 May 2014
Image from Wikimedia Commons
Two weeks ago we published our first reader poll in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative in order to find out more about what people think about autono...
What do people think about autonomous cars? Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
12 May 2014
What do people think are the main advantages of owning an autonomous car? Do people think autonomous cars should be easily identifiable? How much money are people willing to pay for an autonomous car ...
Is surveillance the new business model for consumer robotics?
Mark Stephen Meadows
06 May 2014
A discussion with Ryan Calo on Google, your personal data, and the consumer robotics market
Can someone tell me: What's Google doing, making robots? Or at least: What is it doing, making such acqui...
What should a robot do? Designing robots that know right from wrong
AJung Moon and Footnote
29 Apr 2014
A large robot comes out of an office mailroom carrying a package marked “Urgent” to deliver to the boss upstairs. After navigating down the hall at maximum speed, it discovers someone is already w...
Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?
Open Roboethics Initiative
29 Apr 2014
Today we drive our cars. In the future they’ll do the driving.
Autonomous cars are no longer a far-off futuristic dream, but something that we can expect to see on the road within the next dec...
Taxes pay for robots, but robots don’t pay taxes | The Globe and Mail
Hallie Siegel
14 Apr 2014
It used to be that governments could justify auto industry handouts on the basis of the steady stream of tax revenues they would pocket from all those workers hired to assemble cars. But labour is a s...
Drone crashes could cause headaches and lawsuits | NBC
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
A drone fell from the sky during a triathlon in western Australia, resulting in an injury to a runner and raising questions about who is legally responsible when an unmanned aerial vehicle comes crash...
Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
In this discussion moderated by Stanford's Bryant Walker Smith, the Honorable Rodney Slater talks about the opportunities, challenges and best pathways for successful transportation innovation and pol...
As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers | Ars Technica
CIS Blog
07 Apr 2014
Internet law defined the vanguard of cyberlaw issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but Ryan Calo argues that the next wave of legal showdowns will relate to robotics, which have an altogether dif...
We Robot 2014 livestream
Robohub Editors
04 Apr 2014
Watch the live stream from the We Robot 2014 conference in Miami....
WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society | The Washington Post
CIS Blog
04 Apr 2014
Ryan Calo (a law professor at University of Washington, a member of the WeRobot2014 organizing committee and a major intellectual in the law and technology field) has a new paper at this conference, ...
What to do if you find a lost drone | Forbes
CIS Blog
03 Apr 2014
“I think if you find a drone, you set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s meant to be,” said legal drone expert Ryan Calo kiddingly, before more seriously suggesting calling the manufacturer ...
Why it is not possible to regulate robots | The Guardian
CIS Blog
02 Apr 2014
Is there such a thing as a robot? An excellent paper by Ryan Calo proposes that there is such a thing as a robot, and that, moreover, many of the thorniest, most interesting legal problems on our hori...
The Economist 14-page Special Report: Rise of the Robots—Cool!
Frank Tobe
02 Apr 2014
The Economist, a prestigious London-based business magazine zealously read around the world, has a 14-page Special Report in their current issue. 'Rise of the Robots' offers insight into...
Driven to gridlock: Driverless cars | CBS Los Angeles
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2014
Listen to the full radio interview at CBS Los Angeles.
There’s a lot of talk about autonomous control vehicles, or cars that drive themselves. Charles Feldman talked with Stanford L...
Snowden BEAMs into TED: How robotic telepresence disrupts borders
Hallie Siegel and Andra Keay
19 Mar 2014
Chris Anderson interviews Edward Snowden, who appears at TED 2014 in Vancouver via BEAM telepresence robot from an unknown location in Russia.
Travel in some parts of the world, or for some people, c...
Privacy, Google, and Big Deals, with Avner Levin
AJung Moon
07 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (33:53)
What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics? Since last December, Google alone has acquired a handful of companies in robotics, hom...
Journalist sues police who questioned drone use | ABC News
Hallie Siegel
25 Feb 2014
A journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Hartford police officers violated his free-speech rights by questioning his use of a remote-controlled aircraft to record images of a car wreck. Pedr...
