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Women in engineering at IROS 2014
[tweetquote]Shame that the missing engineering hero on the cover of IEEE Spectrum's July issue looks like superMAN[/tweetquote], because the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) lunch at IROS 2014 was a su...
16 September 2014, by
Andra Keay
Impact of robocars perceived as net positive even if jobs are displaced
Will robots take away our jobs? Will we be better off with robots even if they do?
One Forbes article published last year by Chunka Mui focused the jobs issue on autonomous cars. In the article tit...
15 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
What does the second machine age mean for our jobs? | Erik Brynjolfsson via World Economic Forum Blog
http://youtu.be/7UmGl-FDJ3s
If the first industrial revolution was about creating more effective power systems, such as the steam engine, then this time around the focus is on mental tasks, says Prof...
08 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
03 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Readers support cars that communicate and self-organize
The conventional cars that we drive today don’t really talk to one another. Sure, some of them connect to your cellphones and mp3 players. But they don’t form a communication network with neighbou...
01 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders | MIT News
http://youtu.be/GJ0Pmk_UDY4
New research coming out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggests that letting robots have control over human tasks in manufac...
28 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Finally somebody debunks the Pew Research Center’s “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs” report
Kudos to Erik Sofge, Boston-based reporter for Popular Science Magazine. His recent story, "Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy," cleverly pokes holes wh...
25 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Does the Small UAV industry need its own coalition?
Last week USA Today reported that Amazon, 3D Robotics, Parrot and DJI had banded together to form a "Small UAV Coalition", hiring DC-based lobbying firm Akin Gump to represent their interests...
22 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Video: The future of robotics, as seen by roboticists
At Automatica 2014 in Munich this year, the ECHORD++ project asked roboticists like Vijay Kumar, Uwe Haass, Pere Homs, and Christian Schlegel one simple question: “What do you think is the future of...
22 August 2014, by
Robohub Editors
Clearpath’s public stance on Killer Robots sets precedence in corporate responsibility
Last week the Waterloo-based Clearpath publicly pledged not to develop lethal autonomous weapons, otherwise known as "killer robots". In an open letter to the public, Clearpath's CTO Ryan Gariepy wr...
20 August 2014, by
AJung Moon
Reader poll: How do you feel about “Swarms of Autonomous Cars”?
A few of days ago, WIRED and Robohub covered a story about “Largest Swarm of Robots” and how self-organizing algorithms can be used by robots to form certain shapes. This inspired us to see wha...
19 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Experts have no idea if robots will steal your job | Harvard Business Review
Experts disagree about the future. That might seem unextraordinary, but it’s the conclusion of a new survey on robots from Pew, and it’s more significant than it sounds. For all the talk of “ro...
18 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you
For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about w...
18 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Four recent videos about robots and jobs
Are robots coming for your job, or are they going to make your job easier? We've been following this issue since we ran our Robots and Jobs focus series, and there is no doubt that it's a topic that'...
14 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
The doomsayers believe that humanity will be overwhelmed by creating machines that – like Terminator's Skynet – become ever-more clever and reach a singularity. They're wrong.
Read more by Alan W...
12 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research Center
This report covers experts’ views about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and their impact on jobs and employment.
The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the ...
11 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Governmental funding of strategic robotic projects
Many governments have determined that robotics will play a significant role in contributing to their economy and have set up projects to fund bottlenecks to speed up the process....
11 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars
I’ve been musing more on the future of the city under the robocar, and many visions suggest we’ll have more sprawl. Earlier I have written visions of Robocar Oriented Development and outlined all ...
05 August 2014, by
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?
A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether three different unlicensed groups of individuals should be able to ride in autonomous cars alone. The individuals were: a child under the legal dr...
05 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo
Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...
04 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
If courts are going to treat corporations like humans, they should do the same for robots | Slate
The idea of “legal personhood” existed in America originally to promote the work of the country’s first corporations: banks, insurance companies, water companies, and transportation companies. ...
04 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
The two cultures of robocars
I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...
24 July 2014, by
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
Drones against illegal fishing
Image source: Flickr
With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...
24 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Could Jibo developer Cynthia Breazeal be the Steve Wozniak of robots? | Ryan Calo
VideoBill Gates once predicted we would have a robot in every home to go with our personal computer. James Temple of is calling Jibo—a new personal robot to be sold commercially in 2015—&l...
23 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?
A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...
22 July 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision
Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...
21 July 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Flying Donkey Challenge on hold as Kenyan authorities cope with Westgate Mall fallout
Today organizers announced that the first edition of the Flying Donkey Challenge in Kenya, which had preliminary sub-challenges slated to begin this November, is on hold indefinitely due to delays in ...
18 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Deploying automated vehicles
In 2012, the Nevada DMV issued the first license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US. The red license plates are only for autonomous test vehicles and are meant to make the cars easi...
16 July 2014, by
Bryant Walker Smith
Alleged drone ‘Peeping Tom’ photo reveals perils of drone related journalism | Forbes
Last month a Seattle woman said that a drone made her nervous because it was flying outside of her window. Early media reports called the device a flying “Peeping Tom.” Soon afterwards, nat...
15 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Amazon requests FAA permission to test delivery drones
In April this year, Amazon.com issued a shareholder letter that stated: “The Prime Air team is already flight testing our 5th and 6th generation aerial vehicles…″ Fast forward three months to t...
14 July 2014, by
Dronologista
