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    Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate
    Posting on the Slate blog Future Tense, James Bessen takes issue with the notion that technology causes unemployment, illustrating his point by debunking a pair of frequently cited examples, textile w...
    06 October 2013, by

    AUVSI conference brings robots to drone debate epicenter
    AUVSI returned to D.C. for 2013. Amidst a climate of fiscal austerity and vibrant debates over the growing importance of unmanned vehicles in foreign policy and homeland security, the 2013 AUVSI Unma...
    23 August 2013, by

    Long view required to keep economic policy in step with developments in robotics
    Policy is really about long-term thinking — a process we should do but don't do for various reasons. Though China is a notable exception, very few governments make long-term planning a priority. ...
    16 July 2013, by

    What do policy-makers need to do to keep pace with economic development in robotics?
    Economic policy may not jump to mind as a hot topic for roboticists, but it is a fundamental and influential driver behind the failure or success of the robotics community as a whole. After all, econo...
    15 July 2013, by

    Frank Tobe on “What do policy-makers need to do to keep pace with economic development?”
    [RBI Editors] As an active robotics investor, a leading authority on the business of robotics, and the author of The Robot Report and Everything Robotic, you are at the pulse of the field's econ...
    15 July 2013, by and

    Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU
    Call for Proposals (closes May 27) Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference October 11-13, 2013 NYU School of Law...
    22 May 2013, by



    We Robot Conference: 2. Law as algorithm
    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...
    03 May 2013, by

    We Robot Conference: 1. Intellectual property
    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...
    30 April 2013, by

    Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Let’s all stop them, shall we?
    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...
    27 April 2013, by

    Stopping the deployment of “killer robots” | Humans Rights Watch
    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...
    23 April 2013, by

    Robohub focus: Dealing with the ‘jobs’ question
    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...
    15 April 2013, by

    Commercial opportunities to create more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs when FAA opens airspace to UAS
    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...
    12 April 2013, by

    Jobs by the numbers: Economic reports on the robotics and manufacturing industries
    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. ...
    09 April 2013, by

    VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
    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,...
    26 March 2013, by

    The future of drones in America: Law enforcement and privacy considerations
    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...
    25 March 2013, by

    Senators told current laws may offer little shield against drones | New York Times
    "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....
    25 March 2013, by

    How will robots shape the future of warfare?
    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...
    15 March 2013, by

    Active military robots around the world
    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...
    15 March 2013, by

    Robohub focus: Robots and warfare
    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...
    13 March 2013, by

    Mark Tilden on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”
    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...
    13 March 2013, by

    Raffaello D’Andrea on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”
    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...
    13 March 2013, by

    Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling

    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...
    08 March 2013, by

    Drone filibuster delays US Senate’s vote on new CIA director
    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...
    07 March 2013, by

    The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)
    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 ...
    06 March 2013, by

    Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace
    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 ...
    24 March 2011, by

    Finding a place for cultibotics in Obama’s rural agenda
    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...
    23 November 2008, by

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