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Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
Lauren Klein
02 Dec 2020
Robohub Podcast · Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance
In this episode, our interviewer Lauren Klein speaks with Kim Baraka about his PhD research to enable robots to engage in social int...
Is AI powered government worth it?
Maëlle Gavet
27 Jul 2017
From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of propr...
Does the next industrial revolution spell the end of manufacturing jobs?
The Conversation
25 Jul 2017
By Jeff Morgan, Trinity College Dublin
Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemploym...
Asimov’s Laws won’t stop robots harming humans so we’ve developed a better solution
The Conversation
17 Jul 2017
By Christoph Salge, Marie Curie Global Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
How do you stop a robot from hurting people? Many existing robots, such as those assembling cars in factories, shut down ...
Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of intelligent technology
Alan Winfield
14 Jul 2017
Here are the slides I gave recently as member of panel Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of intelligent technology, at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence 201...
Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology
The Conversation
22 Jun 2017
A subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington.
Patrick Bennett, CC BY-ND
By Eran Klein, University of Washington and Katherine Pratt, Unive...
The Uncanny Valley of human-robot interactions
Oliver Mitchell
02 Jun 2017
The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the flying object. In a demonstration of DJI’s newest drone, the audience marveled at the Cok...
2017 Robot Art Competition winners announced
Robohub Editors
19 May 2017
A record number of teams submitted beautiful robot-created artwork for the second year of this 5-year worldwide competition. In total, there were 38 teams from 10 countries who submitted 200 differen...
World Book Day 2017: 20 robot related books to inspire kids and teens
Alex Kirkpatrick
23 Apr 2017
Happy International World Book and Copyright Day! It's a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading, held annually on 23 April---a symbolic date coinciding with the anniversary of the ...
Why it’s difficult to trust robots
Joffrey Becker
19 Apr 2017
Robots raise all kinds of concerns. They could steal our jobs, as some experts think. And if artificial intelligence grows, it might even be tempted to enslave us, or to annihilate the whole of humani...
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Kickstart Accelerator, with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni
Audrow Nash
17 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni about Kickstart Accelerator, a Swiss Startup Accelerator. Siegwart leads the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich and is on...
The legal issues of robotics
Andrea Bertolini
06 Apr 2017
Robots are the technology of the future. But the current legal system is incapable of handling them. This generic statement is often the premise for considerations about the possibility of awarding ri...
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CUBE Tech Fair, with Torsten Oelke
Audrow Nash
02 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Torsten Oelkes, Executive Chairman of CUBE, about the CUBE Tech Fair. The CUBE Tech Fair is a conference that takes place in Berlin in May that seeks to facili...
Artificial people: How will the law adapt to intelligent systems?
Rob van den Hoven van Genderen
31 Mar 2017
Robotics technology is no longer limited to industry. Climate Controls, 3D printers, surveillance robots, drones, household and even sex robots are entering the private market. The more autonomous the...
Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?
Ronald Yu
09 Mar 2017
Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...
At what point should an intelligent machine be considered a person?
Kyle Bowyer
22 Feb 2017
Science fiction likes to depict robots as autonomous machines, capable of making their own decisions and often expressing their own personalities. Yet we also tend to think of robots as property, and ...
The infrastructure of life part 2: Transparency
Alan Winfield
03 Feb 2017
Part 2: Autonomous Systems and Transparency
In my previous post I argued that a wide range of AI and Autonomous Systems (from now on I will just use the term AS as shorthand for both) should be reg...
Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jan 2017
On the 15th November 2016, the IEEE’s AI and Ethics Summit posed the question: “Who does the thinking?” In a series of key-note speeches and lively panel discussions, leading technologists, leg...
Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Jan 2017
The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...
Brian Cox presents Science Matters: Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Robohub Editors
11 Jan 2017
We're beginning to see more and more jobs being performed by machines, even creative tasks like writing music or painting can now be carried out by a computer.
But how and when will machines be abl...
MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance
MIT News
10 Jan 2017
The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the ...
Robot Life Survey
What might the first western explorer have thought upon encountering whales, flamingos and iguanas? What would have they thought of these strange near-fantastical creatures?
What is it like for 21s...
A report on the ELS Workshop 2016
The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Social Robots in Healthcare and Education Workshop (also called ELS Workshop) was held in Yokohama the 14th Nov 2016 during the JSAI-isAI Conference. The works...
Looking towards service robotics in 2017
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Dec 2016
Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it wh...
Ethically Aligned Design
Alan Winfield
27 Dec 2016
Having been involved in roboethics for some years, I was delighted when the IEEE launched its initiative on Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems, early this year. Especially so because ...
One being for two origins: A new perspective on roboethics
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
08 Dec 2016
The concept One Being for Two Origins, from the teachings of Buddha, considers the unification of technology, nature, and human beings. It emerges from the theory of the three aspects: The values of t...
When robots become art: Interview with Yi-Wei Keng
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
29 Nov 2016
How can robotics help to enhance the development of the modern arts? Japan’s famous playwright, stage director Oriza Hirata and leading roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro launched the “Robot Theater Proj...
Art meets robotics in Patrick Tresset’s OPLINE Prize entry
Andra Keay
27 Oct 2016
The OPLINE Prize is the first online contemporary art award, where the audience vote for the winner out of 10 nominated artists. The winning artist receives 4,000 Euros and exhibitions. The winner al...
How to hire women
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
18 Apr 2016
It’s super hard to find skilled people willing to work for robotics companies in Silicon Valley. Even though robotics is awesome and going to change the world. Because big companies with big payche...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Adrianne Wortzel “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
Nathan Labhart
13 Feb 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
This lecture discusses the relevance of embedding dramatic scenarios and expressive language into methodologies employed in the research and developm...
If you could enhance yourself with some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?
RBI Editors
15 Jan 2014
cy·borg - ˈsīˌbôrg/ - noun
a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the bod...
Mark Stephen Meadows on “If you could enhance yourself with some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”
Mark Stephen Meadows
15 Jan 2014
There are two kinds of cyborgs - those that have broken the skin, and those that have not. Iron Man comes to mind as a cyborg of the second category, in that he can remove his enhancement (save for th...
AJung Moon on “If you could enhance yourself by some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”
AJung Moon
15 Jan 2014
As a researcher in robotics, I tend to cringe whenever someone asks how long it will take until people start to see terminator-like robots on the streets. It’s a fun question to think about, but it ...
Daniel H. Wilson on “If you could enhance yourself by some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”
Daniel Wilson
15 Jan 2014
The potential of robotic implants is limitless, but I am not interested in super-human powers. Instead, I’d be happy with human powers, and in particular the ability to remember. Growing up, I would...
Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella
05 Jan 2014
Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the ...
