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The drones that flock like BIRDS: Robots fly in formation and navigate without being remotely controlled

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James Dyson takes on Google with £5m investment in domestic robots

James Dyson takes on Google with £5m investment in domestic robots
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February 9, 2014

Sir James Dyson is taking on the might of Google by investing £5m in a British university to develop a new generation of “intelligent domestic robots”.

The company best known for its cyclone-power vacuum cleaners is putting the money into a new laboratory at Imperial College London, which has begun hiring up to 15 scientists who will work on developing robot vision systems that could be used in devices such as robot-controlled vacuum cleaners – a longstanding ambition of Dyson himself.

Dyson said the plan was to create “practical everyday technologies that will make our lives easier”.

The move could put Dyson into a position where it is directly challenging Google, which has recently acquired eight robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, which has made self-controlling robots for the US military. In January it also spent £400m acquiring DeepMind Technologies, a London-based startup focusing on artificial intelligence.

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Anh ngữ đặc biệt: Activists Call for International Ban On "Killer Robots (VOA-Tech Rep)

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[256] Robots Replacing Worlds" Teachers, FEMA Should Learn From India Cyclone, Gitmo on the Ground

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Gov’t pays $1,123,463 to develop strawberry harvest-aiding robots

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture  (USDA) has given an award of $ 1,123,463 to the University of California, Davis to develop “relatively small, inexpensive robots” to aid in harvesting strawberries.

The announcement was made in late October as part of a series of USDA awards “to spur the development and use of robots in American agriculture production,” according to a USDA press release.

The release describes the UC Davis robotics grant as a “project (that) will develop relatively small, inexpensive robots to aid in human harvesting of strawberries.”

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Israel’s Killer Robots

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Mark Schumacher

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Israel is the world’s biggest exporter of military drones, used around the world for everything from surveillance to precision rocket attacks on speeding cars in remote locales. Israel’s drone program hasn’t stirred as much controversy as its American counterpart, but not because their targeted killings are any less fatal. VICE sent Simon Ostrovsky to a drone testing airfield in Israel to find out what their latest eye-in-the-sky can see.

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Lego robots ate my son

My son was at his mom’s house and his phone was dead. So I posted a question to his wall on Facebook: “We have a chance to review the new Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. Are you interested?”

Eli’s reply, seconds later: “Need you even ask?”

Not really, no. My son and I have been playing with Lego since he had enough hand-eye coordination to snap two pieces together. We’ve been to Legoland twice. I paid for him to attend a not-inexpensive Lego Mindstorms summer camp four years ago. Almost 16 years old now, he told me in July that he was interested in an engineering career focused on robotics. So yeah, I knew what the answer would be. Let’s build some programmable robots, Dad! Woohoo!

What I didn’t realize was that there would be a bittersweet aftertaste to the awesomeness of geeking out over Lego Mindstorms EV3. Helping him assemble the coolest snake robot we’d ever built (or, to be more accurate, watching him assemble that robot) dragged me back into the past more than it thrilled me on the state-of-the-art robot future. Lego Mindstorms is just a year younger than Eli. It is advancing in fearsome capability as remorselessly as Moore’s Law. But my son is growing up even faster.

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UN Expert Worries About Killer Robots, Ignores The Ones That Already Exist

Autonomous war robots are coming. Panicking about them will only make things worse.

By Kelsey D. Atherton Posted 05.31.2013 at 5:00 pm

Fictional F/A-37 A fictional autonomous robot fighter plane from the 2005 movie “Stealth.” Wikimedia Commons

Yesterday, a United Nations expert called for a halt and moratorium on developing “lethal autonomous robotics,” or, in layman’s terms, “killer robots.”

His argument: once killer robots take part in war, there will be no going back. Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, told the Human Rights Council that now is the time to regulate and stop killer robots, arguing that “decisions over life and death in armed conflict may require compassion and intuition.” He also urged the council to form a panel that would study whether international laws in place today adequately address the use of killer robots.

Thing is, killer robots already exist. And they’re about the least compassionate machines we could imagine.

Actual Killer Robots: a pile of landmines in Cambodia.  Neil Rickards, via Wikimedia Commons

I’m talking about land mines, those notorious explosives that explode when walked over. Land mines are programmed to kill when certain conditions are met. That is the same principle guiding a killer robot.

But there are some key differences: A killer robot might make a decision based on algorithms and inputs, internal coding and pre-programmed combat behaviors. It might be programmed to understand the laws of war, and it might use surveillance technologies to make distinctions between unarmed civilians and armed combatants. The same principles that power facial recognition software could apply to robots targeting their weapons at other weapons, so they fire to disable guns and not to kill people.

Land mines, on the other hand, fail to distinguish between civilians and soldiers, between soldiers of different nations, and between animals or large children or small soldiers. Land-mine triggers cannot be easily shut off and are designed for durability not intelligence. At their worst, killer robots could be as deadly and as indiscriminate as landmines. Chances are, though, they will be much more sophisticated.

The task before lawmakers is not to ban a technology out of fear but to adapt the law to the technology once it exists. Making legislative decisions about new technology is tricky business. In the United States, electronic communication is governed by a law passed well before email was a regular fixture of life. Provisions that made sense to congressmen in 1986 trying to imagine email led to great weaknesses in privacy and personal security, all because the technology wasn’t understood when the law was written. The stakes are much lower in governing electronic communications than in authorizing robots to kill.

Killer robots are coming. Efforts to halt their introduction or ban their development are not only likely to fail, but they’ll drown out legitimate concerns about the safest way to implement the technology with Luddite fear-mongering.

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