Humans don't need to be afraid robots will take their jobs — yet
Perhaps we shouldn’t be so afraid of robots taking our jobs after all. While automation is becoming more common in some industries, humans still have a big leg-up on the ever-increasing robotic...
View Article“Spring-mass” technology heralds the future of walking robots (Oregon State...
(Source: Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study by engineers at Oregon State University suggests that they have achieved the most realistic robotic implementation of human walking dynamics...
View ArticleThe helping hand in the operation room (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft)
(Source: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft) In the future, surgical assistants could be relieved by surgeons, to devote their time instead to their own patients. This is expected to be made possible by a device...
View ArticleWe Should Absolutely Let the Robots Drive
A Google robot car was pulled over in Mountain View for driving too slowly. Yes, you read that right. The self-driving car was driving so far under the speed limit that it had snarled traffic. The...
View ArticlePsychologists prove humans empathize with robots
Researchers at the Department of Information Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology in collaboration with researchers at the Department of Psychology at Kyoto University are the...
View ArticleHuman values should be programmed into robots, argues a computer scientist
As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat. This danger can be avoided, according to...
View ArticleHumans can empathize with robots
Researchers have presented the first neurophysiological evidence of humans' ability to empathize with a robot in perceived pain. Event-related brain potentials in human observers, reflecting empathy...
View ArticleHow Can Robots Learn New Tasks? Practice, Practice, Practice
4:32 PM ET Joe Palca Facebook Twitter Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. YouTube Babies learn how to identify and pick up objects in their...
View ArticleScientists built an AI robot that’s figuring life out just like humans do
There are so many precious moments in a newborn’s life that parents love to capture on film: The first time their child sits up on her own, the first time she stands, her first cautious steps. Igor...
View ArticleHumans Feel Empathy For Robots, Scientists Find
The ability to feel empathy toward others is supposed to be an innate human ability. But when we refer to "others," does that include robots? New research suggests it does. A study from Japan,...
View ArticleThis researcher has an interesting theory for why robots need legal rights
Yueh-Hsuan Weng It's inevitable that at some point down the road, humans will regularly interact with robots. Humanoid robots are being developed to do everything from working alongside astronauts in...
View ArticleSex robots should be banned, expert tells Web Summit
Dr Kathleen Richardson has called for a ban on sex robots. Specifically, the ones that look like humans. They’re already being sold and if the Roxxxy robot is anything to go by current ones look (and...
View ArticleThis artificial skin could let robots 'feel' heat and pressure
View photo. (Park et al, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Our skin is our largest organ. And it's amazingly sensitive, capable of feeling everything from the burn of a hot stove to...
View ArticleWhen robots get hurt, we feel it too
Washington D.C, Nov 4 (ANI): A team of scientists has found that we empathise with humanoid robots in a similar fashion as with other humans. Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology in...
View ArticleWe care when humanoid robots 'hurt'
A team of scientists in Japan have found that humans empathise with humanoid robots in a similar fashion as with other humans. They monitored the brain activity of 15 adults while they were shown a...
View ArticleKiller robots must remain science-fiction (PAX)
(Source: PAX) 05-11-2015 It took decades before a ban on cluster bombs came into being. And nuclear weapons still remain an enormous concern. Let's therefore be on time, for once, in preventing...
View ArticleDeveloping the robot of the future
UC San Diego is establishing a robotics institute aimed at developing machines that can interpret such things as facial expressions and walking styles and size up people's thoughts, actions and...
View Article'Ear worm' robot promises less invasive surgery (Engineers Australia)
(Source: Engineers Australia) German researchers have developed a miniature robot capable of drilling through bone and adjusting its path to steer around sensitive tissue such as blood vessels and...
View ArticleCall for ban on sex robots that resemble humans
Dr Kathleen Richardson has called for a ban on sex robots. Specifically, the ones that look like humans. They’re already being sold and if the Roxxxy robot is anything to go by current ones look (and...
View ArticleRobotic worm for head surgery can cut around corners (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft)
(Source: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft) Surgery is unavoidable for treating inner ear tumors, but the inner ear is difficult to access. This is because it is covered by a cranial bone known as the mastoid,...
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