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    UK Royal Society wants to hear your thoughts on machine learning
    The UK Royal Society would like to hear your thoughts on machine learning – you are invited to answer some or all of the questions set out in a Call for Evidence here. The closing date for evidence ...
    23 December 2015, by

    Register your drone. It’s the law.
    The FAA has ruled that everyone who flies a drone must register. Since an estimated 700,000 drones are expected to be sold in the U.S. for the holiday gift-giving season, the registration process is s...
    16 December 2015, by

    New comprehensive report on the risks drones pose to aircraft
    With the holiday season approaching, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that up to one million new drones will be entering U.S. airspace, creating potentially dangerous situations for...
    14 December 2015, by

    BCG study finds that reshoring with robots works
    Two important findings from Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) recent survey of US manufacturing executives: (1) Of those who plan to add capacity, most plan to do so in the US, and (2) a rising perc...
    10 December 2015, by

    Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90
    Robotics Industry Association | Joseph F. Engelberger, an engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered the robotics field, died peacefully at his home this morning, December 1, 2015, in Newtown, Connecticu...
    01 December 2015, by

    On the ethics of research in robotics, with Raja Chatila
    In this video lecture, IEEE Fellow Raja Chatila shares his views on [tweetquote]why roboticists are duty-bound to educate the wider public on the state of advanced robotics[/tweetquote], and also t...
    25 November 2015, by



    Drone registration Task Force makes 11 key recommendations
    After the Task Force agreed that it was outside the scope of their objectives to debate or discuss the DOT Secretary’s decision to require registration, they undertook to develop and recommend a re...
    24 November 2015, by

    ‘Rise of the Robots’ receives Business Book of the Year award
    One of our choices for your summer reading -- Martin Ford's 'Rise of the Robots' -- won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award at a ceremony held last week in New York. ...
    23 November 2015, by

    European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society
    Over 600 events across the region will look at how robots will impact the way European citizens work, live and learn, as part of the 2015 European Robotics Week (#ERW2015), running 23-29 November....
    19 November 2015, by

    Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW
    On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties....
    17 November 2015, by

    How ethical is your ethical robot?
    If you're in the business of making ethical robots, then sooner or later you have to face the question: how ethical is your ethical robot? If you've read my previous blog posts then you will probably...
    13 November 2015, by

    Global majority want autonomous weapons banned: New report
    The majority of people are against the use of autonomous weapons capable of identifying and destroying targets without human input, according to a new survey by researchers at the University of Britis...
    11 November 2015, by

    Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell
    by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a de...
    15 October 2015, by

    Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin
    AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...
    15 October 2015, by

    25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2015
    Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer, and heralded symbolic logic by demonstrating future applications for the universal computing machine that Charles Babbage proposed. She was e...
    13 October 2015, by , and

    Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously
    In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....
    08 October 2015, by

    Why we need journalism about machine learning
    [clear] Talking Machines is in the process of raising funds to defray the cost of producing our first season and to help us start production on our second season. On the show we’ve talked about h...
    25 September 2015, by

    Let’s hope that #IStandWithAhmed will help improve diversity in robotics
    If you've been following the twittersphere you've heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested after the digital clock he built to impress his highschool teachers was mistak...
    22 September 2015, by
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    TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias

    Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
    18 September 2015, by

    Interview with Danica Kragic
    In this wide ranging interview, Danica Kragic, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and General Chair of ICRA 2016, discusses the nature of collaborative research, shares her...
    17 September 2015, by

    California drone bill misses the mark
    Last week, the California state Assembly approved Senate Bill 142 which, if adopted, would restrict drone operators from flying below 350 feet above ground level (AGL) over real property unless they o...
    01 September 2015, by

    ‘World’s Most Dangerous Rivalry’ stoked by bowing Abe robot at CIROS
    The long-term rivalry between China and Japan, often characterised as the "World's Most Dangerous Rivalry," was exacerbated at the CIROS show held in Shanghai last week by a bowing Prime Minister Abe...
    17 July 2015, by

    WeRobot 2015 Panel 4: Regulating healthcare robots, with Drew Simshaw, Nicolas Terry, Kris Hauser and M.L. Cumming
    Basic, pressing issues need to be addressed very soon to ensure that robots are developed that promote confidence among providers, patients, consumers, and investors. In this We Robot 2015 panel, t...
    16 July 2015, by

    Estimating the impact of robots on productivity and employment
    To discover the impact of robots on the average manufacturing worker, we analysed their effect in 14 industries across 17 developed countries from 1993 to 2007. We found that industrial robots increas...
    14 July 2015, by and

    Study shows public perception of robotics generally positive in EU, but declining
    A major study into European attitudes toward automation has found that while almost two thirds of people polled feel generally positive about robots, public acceptance of them in the EU is in dec...
    25 June 2015, by and

    WeRobot 2015 Panel 3: Robotics governance, with Peter Asaro, Jason Millar, Kirsten Thomasen and David Post
    [clear] What are the challenges facing governance and regulation of emerging robotic technologies? Peter Asaro of the New School, Jason Millar of Queen’s University, Kristen Thomasen of the Unive...
    23 June 2015, by

    In the future, robots will be ubiquitous
    The July/August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine has a number of dispatches from the frontlines of the robotics revolution....
    20 June 2015, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/15/15
    The Pentagon’s 1033 program, which transfers excess military equipment to domestic law enforcement, has resulted in the proliferation of unmanned ground vehicles in police departments across the cou...
    15 June 2015, by

    WeRobot 2015 Panel 2: Robot passports, with Anupam Chander
    Anupam Chander’s paper, “Robots, the Internet of Things and the future of trade,” is the first effort to locate and analyze these complimentary technologies within an international trading frame...
    11 June 2015, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/8/15
    The House and Senate have released proposed Pentagon budget bills that differ in drone spending from Obama’s proposed budget in several key points. We analyzed these differences to glean how they re...
    08 June 2015, by

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