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When terrible engineers are good
Andra Keay
06 Aug 2013
A recent post "I need terrible female engineers" on Medium by Amy Nguyen describes her feelings as a female engineer; feeling that technical women are expected to be super humanly perfect - like Summe...
Delivered by drones: Are Tacocopters and Burrito Bombers the next Pony Express? | Slate
CIS Blog
06 Aug 2013
The drones are coming! The drones are coming! But this time they’re not armed with hellfire missiles. These drones are packing a new kind of heat: steaming pizzas, fresh tacos, and cold beer.
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ISO to adopt nursing-care robot safety standards
Frank Tobe
31 Jul 2013
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will compile global safety standards for nursing-care robots based on criteria provided by the Japanese government. Nursing care robots are des...
The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | Wired
CIS Blog
30 Jul 2013
If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The ...
Tune your engine: Driverless car technology | Radio New Zealand
CIS Blog
29 Jul 2013
Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Centers for Automotive Research and Internet and Society, looks at developments in driverless car technology.
Originally aired on: Radio New Ze...
Three ag robot companies featured in AP story
Frank Tobe
19 Jul 2013
... In an Associated Press article by Gosia Wozniacka, using robots to sort, thin, harvest and handle fruits and vegetables were examined.
... Blue River Technology and their Lettuce Bot; Vision Ro...
China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation
CHEN Fei
17 Jul 2013
With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...
3,400 healthcare jobs in the US required robotics experience and skills
Frank Tobe
16 Jul 2013
... More than 3,400 healthcare jobs in the US required robotics experience and skills - a 32% gain year-over-year, according to WANTED Analytics....
Long view required to keep economic policy in step with developments in robotics
Frank Tobe
16 Jul 2013
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.
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What do policy-makers need to do to keep pace with economic development in robotics?
RBI Editors
15 Jul 2013
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...
China now largest market for robots
Frank Tobe
12 Jul 2013
The China International Robot Show CIROS was held July 2-5 in Shanghai. 30,000 people were expected to attend and 56 companies exhibited. Although most of the exhibitors were Taiwanese, Japanese, Kore...
Oxford Martin School founder and GF2045 keynote speaker James Martin dies
Frank Tobe
29 Jun 2013
... At Global Future 2045, in NYC, June 15-16, the keynote speaker represented rampant technological change as both a problem and a benefit, and it needed to be addressed as such. He died on June 24....
We Robot Conference: 6. Manufacturer risk management
Kate Darling
29 May 2013
Q: What's the main issue that will keep the general legal counsel of a robotics company up at night? A: Massive tort liability. Maintaining that product liability is the number one issue for robot man...
We Robot Conference 5: Bender’s Law
Kate Darling
23 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: 4. Social robot demo
Kate Darling
21 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: The Ethical Robot License for open robotics
AJung Moon
07 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: 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...
Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference
CIS Blog
29 Apr 2013
The pressures are building for safer and smarter vehicles on our roads, raising questions about the national, state and local policies that will emerge. Several states are already early adopters of le...
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...
Ethical, social and legal issues, with Pericle Salvini
Per Sjöborg
19 Apr 2013
Link to audio file (33:23)
In this episode, Per talks to Pericle Salvini from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna about his work with social, ethical and legal issues in robotics. He tells us about the Robola...
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...
We Robot: Live coverage on robotics and the law
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2013
Updated April 9, 2013 | Check this post for our live coverage of the We Robot conference happening April 8-9 at Stanford Law School....
Why driverless cars are ‘probably’ legal | The Atlantic Cities
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2013
The biggest roadblock facing a driverless world isn't necessarily technology, but legality. The question of who would be liable in the event of an accident — the human "driver," the car's owner, the...
The more Americans know about drones, the less they like them | Reason.com
CIS Blog
27 Mar 2013
In an influential 2011 article, "The Drone as Privacy Catalyst," law professor Ryan Calo predicted that the dystopian images that drones evoke could spur much-needed reforms to American privacy law. ...
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...
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...
Who’s liable when a driverless car crashes? | NPR
CIS Blog
12 Mar 2013
It's absolutely the case that after the first accident involving an automated vehicle, there will be an automated ambulance chaser following.
- Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Informati...
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...
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 ...
