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‘Killer robots’ will be nothing like the movies show – here’s where the real threats lie

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Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Q-UGV. US Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker By Toby Walsh (Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney) You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional …

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Why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workers

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Who wouldn’t want a robot to handle all the household drudgery? Skathi/iStock via Getty Images By Ayonga Hereid (Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University) With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety of domestic …

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Should robots be gendered? comments on Alan Winfield’s opinion piece

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The gendering of robots is something I’ve found fascinating since I first started building robots out of legos with my brother. We all ascribe character to robots, consciously or not, even when we understand exactly how robots work. Until recently we’ve been able to write this off as science fiction stuff, because real robots were …

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