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We Robot Conference: 2. Law as algorithm
Kate Darling
03 May 2013
On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...
We Robot Conference: 1. Intellectual property
Kate Darling
30 Apr 2013
On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Let’s all stop them, shall we?
AJung Moon
27 Apr 2013
Killer robots.
Looking at the two words together is enough to conjure up images of chaos and destruction. They're an image far too familiar in science fiction settings such as Isaac Asimov or Ar...
Stopping the deployment of “killer robots” | Humans Rights Watch
Mike Hamer
23 Apr 2013
In November last year, the Human Rights Watch released the "Losing Humanity" report (which we've already covered on Robohub). This report discussed the role of robots in armed conflict, summarized th...
Robohub focus: Dealing with the ‘jobs’ question
Hallie Siegel
15 Apr 2013
For the next week, Robohub will host a special focus on robots and jobs, featuring original articles from leading experts in the fields of robotics and automation. The goal of the series is to explore...
Commercial opportunities to create more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs when FAA opens airspace to UAS
Chris Mailey
12 Apr 2013
AUVSI recently released a report titled The Economic Impact of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently has heavy restrictions on...
Jobs by the numbers: Economic reports on the robotics and manufacturing industries
Robohub Editors
09 Apr 2013
All the economics reports from a variety of stakeholders in one place! Don't forget to bookmark this page - we will update it as new reports become available. ...
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Robert Morris
26 Mar 2013
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...
The future of drones in America: Law enforcement and privacy considerations
CIS Blog
25 Mar 2013
Last week the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard from witnesses Benjamin Miller, Amie Stepanovich, Michael Tosocano and Prof. Ryan Calo on “The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement...
Senators told current laws may offer little shield against drones | New York Times
CIS Blog
25 Mar 2013
"There’s very little in American privacy law that wouldlimit the use of drones for surveillance,” said one witness, Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law....
How will robots shape the future of warfare?
RBI Editors
15 Mar 2013
Updated March 17, 2013 | This month we've asked our experts to weigh in on the future of robotics in warfare, and the broadness of this topic has prompted some of our panelists to push back and reques...
Active military robots around the world
Ioannis K. Erripis
15 Mar 2013
This is a brief presentation of some of the most widely used robots (or remotely controlled, semi-autonomous systems) from militaries around the world. There are numerous other projects that are curre...
Robohub focus: Robots and warfare
Hallie Siegel
13 Mar 2013
For the rest of this week, Robohub will have a special focus on the use of robots in warfare.
All kinds of robots are being developed for strategic defence and military action (in space, in the...
Mark Tilden on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”
Mark Tilden
13 Mar 2013
Robot machines have been shaping the future of war since the first siege engines appeared in ancient times (I like to think the Trojan Horse was motorized). Now with technology significantly exten...
Raffaello D’Andrea on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”
Raffaello D'Andrea
13 Mar 2013
How will robots shape the future of war? I don’t know. I think that the more important question, however, is: what role should robots have in warfare?
In my answer I have tried (as much as is h...
Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling
Podcast team
08 Mar 2013
Link to audio file (22:47)
In this episode, we talk with Kate Darling from the MIT Media Lab, about giving rights to social robots. She tells us about a recent Pleo torture session she organized at...
Drone filibuster delays US Senate’s vote on new CIA director
Hallie Siegel
07 Mar 2013
A US Senate vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA director was delayed by a 13-hour talking filibuster by junior Republican Senator Rand Paul.
US President Barack Obama has faced criticism in hi...
The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)
Mark Stephen Meadows
06 Mar 2013
This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data. Since they ...
Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace
Ioannis K. Erripis
24 Mar 2011
The use of UAVs has skyrocketed, a wide variety of systems ranging from extremely small flying bots to large airframes like the Predators or Global Hawk drones is currently in use, mostly from armed ...
Finding a place for cultibotics in Obama’s rural agenda
John Payne
23 Nov 2008
It's not like there was any shortage of ideas for how to improve the stability of U.S. agriculture, the lot of farmers, and the economic vitality of rural America. Just have a look at President-Elect...
