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Robotics

Jim Lawton: 3 Challenges for Manufacturing’s Innovation Age

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
April 03, 2016

At the intersection of mind and machine, manufacturing is poised for transformation. Here are three challenges industry faces in order to capitalize on advances in robotics and the Industrial Internet.

 
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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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drones

And The UAV Goes To: The Making Of The Trophy Drone At The New York City Drone Film Festival

March 04, 2016
The footage captured by drones used to be the stuff of stunt pilots or computer-generated effects: a bird's-eye view of a scientist standing disconcertingly close to a lake of bubbling lava; an elevated view of an epic nighttime ski session featuring an athlete outfitted in a glowing suit; being eye to eye with a worker fixing an antenna hundreds of feet above the ground.
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Robotics

Buddy Bots: These Robots Will Free Us From Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Labor

December 09, 2015
He’s a coworker unlike any other — not afraid to wade into dangerous situations, take on boring tasks for hours on end and answer obscure maintenance questions you may have. “He” is really an it, a robot called the Guardian. It's part of a system of airborne, sea-and-land-based robots GE is developing to autonomously check locomotives and other industrial assets for damage, unusually high temperatures and other abnormalities. They are trained to raise the red flag when they see something amiss.
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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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artificial-intelligence

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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Breakthrough

Are Humans Becoming More God-Like? Interview with Yuval Noah Harari of Hebrew University

Yuval Noah Harari Professor At Hebrew University In Jerusalem
November 15, 2015

Technology will enable people to “upgrade” to god-like cyborgs in a century or two. That could be a good thing, as long as the technology is serving us — not the other way around.

 

Is technology enabling us to become ever-more god-like? And would that be a good thing?

As artificial intelligence (AI) and embedded technologies empower people to become “more than human,” future advances could become as much of an ethical question as a technological one.
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Breakthrough

Engines of Inference: Peter Tu’s Tech Uses Computer Vision to Understand Emotions, Human Behavior

November 06, 2015
If Peter Tu’s technology takes off, an airplane could know when pilots get distracted in the cockpit and offer suggestions to help them make better decisions. Similarly, doctors could receive important tips on communicating and improving body language when presenting patients with a diagnosis.
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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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Nuclear Power

Sink and Swim: Stinger The Swimming Robot Keeps Nuclear Reactors Healthy

Tomas Kellner
October 16, 2015

Nothing says summertime in Georgia like a dip in the old swimming hole. But near the town of Baxley, there’s one pool that’s not open to the public: the crystal-clear blue waters of the containment vessel bathing the Edwin Irby Hatch Power Plant’s nuclear reactor.

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