Topic
Robotics
223 published works
The Right Coast
Meet Your New Co-worker: The Robot
At the RoboUniverse expo in New York City, robots of all shapes and sizes were being put to work. Companies showed off automated machines designed to perform tasks that many…
IP Intelligence
The Reasonable Computer
New England was aflutter last week, and not just because three judges were named to hear the appeal of the National Football League against Tom Brady in the continued “deflategate”…
The Right Coast
Cockroaches: Indestructible, and Instructive to Robot Makers – The New York Times
The insects might even offer a new model for robots that crawl through rubble to look for survivors or gather information after disasters, according to scientists at the University of…
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What We Expect to See in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in 2016 | MIT Technology Review
Will this year mark the first drone delivery, or the first time you encounter a robot at work or in your home? We saw significant advancements in robotics and artificial…
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China Aims to Retool Its Manufacturing Industry with Robots | MIT Technology Review
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.via www.technologyreview.comWhat could go wrong?
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Robots are learning to DISOBEY humans saying no if it thinks it might be hurt | Daily Mail Online
If Hollywood ever had a lesson for scientists it is what happens if machines start to rebel against their human creators.Yet despite this, roboticists have started to teach their own…
Clinical Robotics Law Journal
Robots in Permission-based Occupations
Recently, my colleagues Jim Muehlberger and Chris Wray made some really good points about robots functioning in permission-based occupations. Does the law permit a robot to serve as your cosmetologist? What…
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Robot Culture: Research Bots Share What They ve Learned | MIT Technology Review
Researchers at Cornell University previously devised an online game, called TellMeDave, through which volunteers can help train a robot to perform a task and associate different actions with commands given…
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Japanese Robot Needs an American Reboot before Being Deployed in Stores | MIT Technology Review
In certain Japanese stores, Pepper the robot greets customers with a giggle, a polite bow, and a short song. When Pepper debuts in the United States, sometime in the next…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Robots in the workplace
There is a very, very interesting article on Wired.com by Emily Dreyfuss about her experience teleworking via an iPad robot on wheels. I haven't thought deeply about technology in the…