What Could Go Wrong? Crime Fighting Robots Now Equipped with Self-Defense Instincts
By Claire Bernish Once thought to be too approachable for their own good — as in, able to efficaciously perform the tasks they’ve been designed…
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Losing Control: The Dangers of Killer Robots
By Bonnie Docherty, Harvard University New technology could lead humans to relinquish control over decisions to use lethal force. As artificial intelligence advances, the possibility…
Fighting Malevolent AI: Artificial Intelligence, Meet Cybersecurity
By Roman V. Yampolskiy, University of Louisville With the appearance of robotic financial advisors, self-driving cars and personal digital assistants come many unresolved problems. We…
NASA’s Valkyrie “Superhero Robot” Continues Evolution for Mission to Mars
By Nicholas West The evolution of humanoid robots and artificial intelligence continues to indicate a future where humans will increasingly work with – or be…
Sexy Robot Apocalypse? Robots Can Now Mate and Reproduce
By Joshua Krause These days everyone is talking about automation, and how robots may take millions of our jobs over the next 20 years. By…
U.S. Army to Test Convoy of Driverless Vehicles on Public Roadways
By Joseph Jankowski The U.S. Army is set to send a convoy of vehicles along a stretch of Interstate 69 in Michigan as part of…
Robots Kill 60,000 Jobs At Just One Factory As 40% of Labor Faces Extinction
By Melissa Dykes Human labor is worth less than ever at the notorious Foxconn factory. The company, known for producing Apple products and other American…
Meet China’s New Taser Wielding Riot Control Robot
By Joshua Krause Over the past few years, the police in America and around the world have been facing more scrutiny than they ever have…
Origami Robot Heralds New Possibilities and Concerns For Ingestible Medicine
By Jason Erickson Ingestible medicine continues to be a controversial, but quickly arriving technology. In this video you will see a product of researchers at…
New KFC Restaurant Run Entirely by Robots
By Nick Bernabe Colonel Sanders is raising a robot army to serve fried chicken at a restaurant near you. KFC’s first automated restaurant, called Original+,…
Driverless Trucks Already Being Tested; Three Million-Plus Truck Drivers to Lose Their Jobs Soon
By Melissa Dykes According to the American Trucking Association, there are some 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States alone. That’s 3.5 million people…
U.S. Preparing To Launch Submarine Drones Into Disputed Territory Of The South China Sea
By Nicholas West An ongoing territorial dispute in the South China Sea over a stretch that comprises more than 750 reefs, banks, and shoals known…
Harvard and Human Rights Watch Call For A Ban On “Killer Robots” Amid Geneva Talks
By Joseph Jankowski A new report from the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch is calling for a ban on lethal autonomous…
DARPA Unveils Plans For World’s First Flotilla of Killer Robot Warships Within 5 Years – “Sea Hunter”
By Nicholas West As above, so below. While the global drone arms race heats up across the planet, filling the sky with automated weapons of…