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China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation
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...
17 July 2013, by
CHEN Fei
3,400 healthcare jobs in the US required robotics experience and skills
... More than 3,400 healthcare jobs in the US required robotics experience and skills - a 32% gain year-over-year, according to WANTED Analytics....
16 July 2013, by
Frank Tobe
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.
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16 July 2013, by
Frank Tobe
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
RBI Editors
China now largest market for robots
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...
12 July 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Oxford Martin School founder and GF2045 keynote speaker James Martin dies
... 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....
29 June 2013, by
Frank Tobe
We Robot Conference: 4. Social robot demo
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...
21 May 2013, by
Kate Darling
We Robot Conference: The Ethical Robot License for open robotics
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...
07 May 2013, by
AJung Moon
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
Kate Darling
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
Kate Darling
Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference
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...
29 April 2013, by
CIS Blog
Ethical, social and legal issues, with Pericle Salvini
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...
19 April 2013, by
Per Sjöborg
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
RBI Editors
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
Ioannis K. Erripis
