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Robots & their AI. How we're changing them. How they're changing us.
By David Berreby · Launched a year ago
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'Accident' Isn't Always the Right Word for Robot Screwups
In a lot of incidents, humans and machines are operating normally
May 10
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The Unbearable Indifference of Others
People hate the feeling that others don't care about them. Even if those 'others' are machines
Apr 10
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More on robot accidents
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…
May 23
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Rebooting
A new refocused newsletter. Also, an app!
Mar 10
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Is It Ever OK to Bash a Robot?
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There's No One Attitude Toward Robots
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Imitation of Life
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'You Got to Move When the Robots Move'
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Does a Robot Need to Have a Gender?
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Robots at War
Russia makes threatening moves after Ukraine deploys a new combat robot. Also, Tesla fans seem to be gearing up for political combat over Autopilot.
Nov 23, 2021
Does a Robot Need to Have a Gender?
About as much as a fish needs a bicycle. But that's not going to stop people.
Nov 4, 2021
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A Robot Vice Squad Is Something to Fear
Singapore tests out a device that spots smokers and sidewalk skateboarders, and yells at them
Oct 8, 2021
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There's a Simple Reason We Don't Already Have Robots in Every Home
Human lives are messy. Robots still need things to be neat. Amazon's entry into the "household robot" arena won't change that.
Oct 1, 2021
The reason voice-activated devices favor male voices is probably not as simple as you'd think.
Also: Robot news from the air, the street, the surgical theater and a deep, deep cave in Kentucky.
Sep 22, 2021
All of this has happened before
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…
Sep 11, 2021
The controversy over behavioral economics
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"
Sep 3, 2021
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Do Not Hold Your Breath Waiting for the Muskbot
And other news of the week
Aug 22, 2021
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Is It Ever OK to Bash a Robot?
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There's No One Attitude Toward Robots
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Imitation of Life
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'You Got to Move When the Robots Move'
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Does a Robot Need to Have a Gender?
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