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    Small UAV Coalition urges FAA to focus on regulations that enable domestic UAV innovation
    [tweetquote]Recent court cases distract from timely and safe integration of small UAVs.[/tweetquote]...
    20 November 2014, by and

    National Science Foundation and federal partners award $31.5M to advance co-robots in US
    From disaster recovery to caring for the elderly in the home, scientists and engineers are developing robots that can handle critical tasks in close proximity to humans, safely and with greater resili...
    20 November 2014, by

    NTSB overturns Pirker case: Drones are aircraft
    The Pirker case was a landmark case in UAV legislation development. In 2011, Raphael Pirker used his Ritewing Zephyr UAV to make some aerial footage over the University of Virginia campus, and for tha...
    19 November 2014, by

    UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
    At a recent meeting at the United Nations, UN and UNICEF officials met with NGOs including Red Cross, food and peacekeeping groups, to discuss setting up a network of humanitarian uses for drones and...
    17 November 2014, by

    Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to
    Amazon, the largest online retailer and Internet company in the USA, sells media, data, software, video games, electronics, food, toys, clothes, furniture, and jewelry. It is a big provider of cloud c...
    14 November 2014, by

    Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat
    Recently there has been a spate of articles in the mainstream press, and a spate of high profile people who are in tech but not AI, speculating about the dangers of malevolent AI being developed, and ...
    11 November 2014, by



    Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandpa?
    One of the driving forces of social, interactive robotics is the issue of impending labour shortage, which is projected to be one of the major and inevitable consequences of the ageing population phe...
    11 November 2014, by

    Transport Canada relaxes commercial drone regulations, increases focus on academic use
    Last week, Transport Canada announced upcoming changes to the regulatory framework surrounding drones. Transport Canada’s exemption notification simultaneously signals a relaxation of commercial dro...
    10 November 2014, by

    RoboLaw: Why and how to regulate robotics
    The issue is often raised whether robotics needs to be regulated. While some believe that there is no need to intervene because regulation may stifle innovation, others believe that indeed there is ne...
    29 October 2014, by

    When it comes to regulating robotics, multiple questions are at issue
    Earlier this month the Brookings Institute published a paper by Ryan Calo titled "The case for a federally regulated robotics commission". As much as I appreciate the thoughtfulness and readability of...
    28 October 2014, by

    A horse of a different color: Ryan Calo on What robotics can learn from cyberlaw | Slate
    In the early days of dot-com, the law found the Internet unsettling. That a buyer in one location could access the website of a seller in any other forced courts to revisit basic questions of jurisdic...
    27 October 2014, by

    This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company
    Cars are already close to driving themselves down the highway. How far are we then from military weapons systems that decide on their own when and where to fire? "You want the scary answer?" asks C...
    23 October 2014, by

    Driven by care needs, will it be the booming senior population that spurs wider acceptance of robots?
    Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Center of Robotics believes that [tweetquote]the medical industry could be at the forefront of changing the public per...
    19 October 2014, by

    Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities
    As people get older, they start losing their ability to drive: they start having trouble seeing in the dark and they stop driving at night; they also make mistakes, causing other people to hit them, a...
    18 October 2014, by
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    Engaging Girls in Robotics, with Hannah and Rachael Tipperman, Ross Mead and Elizabeth Croft

    Earlier this year, the Robots Podcast team came across a story about two 17 year old twin sisters who started their own robotics outreach group. The story about the Tipperman sisters got us curious. W...
    17 October 2014, by

    Friday Q&A: Law Professor Ryan Calo | Roll Call
    Ryan Calo is an assistant law professor at the University of Washington School of Law whose academic work looks at the legal and policy aspects of robotics. Technocrat talked to him about what he anti...
    17 October 2014, by

    25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)
    Just last week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella gave women some questionable career advice: "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing...
    15 October 2014, by , and

    Robots are not here to take your jobs | USA Today
    Robots are not here to steal our jobs, nor are we at risk of any other en masse robotic movement reliant upon self-determined mechanized cognizance. In fact, nearly 100% of contemporary robotic tec...
    15 October 2014, by

    Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”
    October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...
    14 October 2014, by

    Nursing Grandma with a robot
    [tweetquote]All this talk about being replaced by robots is getting old.[/tweetquote]...
    13 October 2014, by

    Reader poll: How much control should a bathing robot have?
    http://youtu.be/0ac2qwStrdo A few years ago, researchers at the University of British Columbia (AJung Moon, Peter Danielson and Mike Van der Loos) studied the public acceptance of a number of diff...
    01 October 2014, by

    Poll shows bots seen more as appliance than companion, but still good for whole family
    Primary reasons for considering to purchase a robot for the home Why would you want to buy a robot for your home? When we asked our readers this question, the majority (75%) said that they’d wa...
    29 September 2014, by

    Robot jurisprudence: How to judge a ’botm | The Economist
    The concern for policymakers is creating a regulatory and legal environment that is broad enough to maintain legal and ethical norms but is not so proscriptive as to hamper innovation. It was with thi...
    29 September 2014, by

    Commercial drone regulations: Canada vs. US
    When Canadians attempt to characterize aspects of Canadian culture, it’s not uncommon to draw comparisons with the US. I recently noticed that as I respond to questions about the Canadian regulation...
    29 September 2014, by

    Snapshot of US UAV situation
    The impact on businesses of the ongoing US ban on commercial UAV operation can be seen in a snapshot of this week’s drone news. Drones are very affordable these days, and there is nothing to stop an...
    25 September 2014, by

    A call for debate on robot policy
    The 1953 New Yorker cartoon that started the “Take me to your leader” meme showed two aliens newly arrived on earth asking a donkey to, effectively, give them policy guidance. This is exactly what...
    24 September 2014, by

    Hot topic: Regulating robotics
    Updated 24/09/14 Do robots need to be regulated? Several legal and policy experts think that robot regulations should be developed early and revised often. Others - especially those working on researc...
    23 September 2014, by

    We need to pass legislation on artificial intelligence early and often | Slate
    Economists and historians traditionally claim that the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution led to the creation of a large middle class in the United States. That’s only partly true. ...
    23 September 2014, by

    Problems with precautionary principle-minded tech regulation & a Federal Robotics Commission
    If there are two general principles that unify my recent work on technology policy and innovation issues, they would be as follows. To the maximum extent possible: We should avoid preemptive and...
    23 September 2014, by

    RoboLaw: EU roadmap for developing guidelines on regulating robotics
    The investigation on the interplay between robotics and regulation moves from a request for a legal framework that can accompany the developments of robotics. The request is coming from the very actor...
    23 September 2014, by

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