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In a lot of incidents, humans and machines are operating normally
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People hate the feeling that others don't care about them. Even if those 'others' are machines
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A few days after I wrote my last post about robot "accidents," coincidentally the good people at Black in Robotics retweeted several pics of delivery robots getting in trouble. For example, this one getting massacred by a train. And these three which, the tweeter said, took five…
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Russia makes threatening moves after Ukraine deploys a new combat robot. Also, Tesla fans seem to be gearing up for political combat over Autopilot.
About as much as a fish needs a bicycle. But that's not going to stop people.
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Singapore tests out a device that spots smokers and sidewalk skateboarders, and yells at them
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Human lives are messy. Robots still need things to be neat. Amazon's entry into the "household robot" arena won't change that.
Also: Robot news from the air, the street, the surgical theater and a deep, deep cave in Kentucky.
If you think human-robot relations are a blank slate, Kate Darling is here to set you straight. Also: AI-human hybrids to help harried moms, California…
The idea that robots can influence people to do good is based on a set of ideas that are have been criticized as exaggerated or even "dead"
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