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Robots

Can I Trust My Robot And Should My Robot Trust Me?

Riccardo Bevilacqua Associate Professor Of Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering University Of Florida
May 30, 2016

It's not just people who need to get better at talking to one another. Space roboticist Riccardo Bevilacqua says we need to teach our machines how to communicate more effectively for robots to reach their full potential.

 

If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions.
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Robots

Readin', 'Ritin' And Robots: Machine Learning And Robotics Competition Sparks Young Inventors

May 20, 2016
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Robotics

Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages

April 11, 2016
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a poet, thought of robota, the Czech word for forced labor, and told Karel to call them robots.
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Boston

How GE’s Move To Boston Is Really A Homecoming

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE said in January that it will relocate its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. The company had a significant presence in the city even before the move — GE businesses ranging from Aviation and Current to Digital and Healthcare employ almost 5,000 people in the city and surrounding area. But GE’s Boston roots go to the very beginning of the company. Our video and also our photo essay tell that story.
 

 
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Robotics

Robot Law: Preventing Serious And Subtle Threats — An Interview With A. Michael Froomkin

A Michael Froomkin Laurie Silvers And Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor Of Law At University Of Miami Law School
March 24, 2016

From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, A. Michael Froomkin discusses the legal complexities and challenges of robotics.

 

Robots aren’t people. So whom do we blame — and how do we react — when they spy on, injure or even kill us? And how could robots undermine even our most trusted professionals?
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Little robots boost reliability of big power plants

March 22, 2016
The ink is fresh on a contract signed with Alinta Energy for GE to provide robotic inspections of 19 generators across all of the power company’s gas-fired plants in Australia and New Zealand. The robots didn’t sign, although their dexterity plays a major part in this agreement that underscores a new era of optimising machine productivity, and reducing the risk of damage to expensive assets—this may, eventually, have a cost benefit when it comes to insurance premiums paid to protect such assets.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 25, 2016
In this week’s haul, one of the world’s most advanced robots gets knocked down with a pipe and gets up again, scientists collect clues on defusing a superbug’s immunity barrier with a light source 10 billion times brighter than the sun, researchers fight drug-resistant leukemia with a Trojan horse virus and engineers take tips from a desert beetle to squeeze moisture out of arid air. Take a look.
 

Study: Health Savings Offset Clean-Energy Costs in Spades
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artificial-intelligence

Child’s Play: Machines Learning Like Kids Will Usher In The Next Industrial Revolution

December 07, 2015
If you ask Hollywood, the world teeming with robots and artificial intelligence is a no-brainer. Movies like “The Terminator,” “WALL-E” and “Blade Runner” have all cast intelligent automata as the wings upon which the future — mostly dystopian — swoops in. In fact, some very big names in science and engineering have recently joined voices in cautioning against unchecked intelligence development. Tesla’s Elon Musk and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking have both predicted catastrophe should we make dumb choices when building smart machines.
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Will Artificial Intelligence Do Great Harm or Great Good? — Interview with Marcelo Gleiser of Dartmouth College

Marcelo Gleiser The Appleton Professor Of Natural Philosophy Dartmouth College
November 24, 2015

We must consider the key moral and policy questions around artificial intelligence and cyborg technologies to ensure our innovations don’t destroy us.

 

How much do we really know about the impact of scientific breakthroughs — on technology or on society? Not enough, says Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.
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Robots

Jim Lawton: When Humans and Robots Work Together

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
October 20, 2015

How collaborative robotics is accelerating the next industrial revolution.

When you hear about innovative technological advances that are reshaping industries, chances are you aren’t thinking about a factory floor. Not much has changed there since the first industrial robots were deployed in the 1960s — until now.
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