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Robotics
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Good Bot or Bad Bot?
The Council for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) recently ran an article entitled "Nano-Robots Good and Bad." The article updates CRN's 2005 article "Nanobots Not Needed" and attempts to present a balanced…
Cam Law
Roachbots integrate into cockroach society
Scientists report today that cockroach robots, affectionately known as roachbots, effectively integrated themselves into insect communities. The bots were so effective at mimicking insect behavior that they succeeded in taking…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Japanese elderly ignore robot entertainer
Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese nursing home, can converse,sing, express emotions and give trivia quizzes to seniors to help withtheir mental agility. Yet the pale-green gizmo has spent…
Cam Law
You are becoming unglued
But fortunately your robot is watching you. Science fiction (I Robot)? No. Reality. The Autonomous Personal Robot is: designed to "monitor its owner for symptoms of distress," with sensors to…
Cam Law
Anyone can now build robots
Nearly anyone will be able to build robots with these new online instructions to come from Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that…
Cam Law
Robots learning emotions from people
Robots are learning emotions from people, and they'll be reading this blog before long. Feelix Growing is a research project involving six countries, and 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists.…
Cam Law
Robot companions
Following "robot phone home," the next prediction from the AAAS meeting is that, within a decade cars could start driving themselves on highways and in less than 25 years automakers…
Cam Law
Robots with feelings phone home
Abraham Maslow explored the 'farther reaches of human nature' with a positive psychology of motivation; now, robot psychology is being used industrially to guide motivation of android helpmates. Groups around…