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06/05/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Future Mayor of Tokyo could be an AI robot

Japan has come up with all kinds of robots and artificial intelligence to fill various vacant positions in construction sites, factory lines, and people’s love lives. So it comes as no surprise that an AI is campaigning to be elected as mayor of an important city in Tokyo Metropolis, an article in Grape states. Tama […]

09/06/2016 / By roboticsnews

Meet Sanbot: the AI robot seeking work as a waiter, security guard or smart-home butler

It can read facial expressions, recognise and respond to complex voice commands and interface with internet-of-things devices in the smart home. Article by Adam Bannister Offering video surveillance functionality too, she (it’s female; the eyelashes are the giveaway) can serve as a very different kind of security guard. It can even detect smoke. Meet Sanbot, a robot […]

07/13/2016 / By Greg White

Can these two rules being tested on a knife-wielding robot stop A.I. androids from harming humans?

A roboticist from California has created a contraption that intentionally stabs people with a needle. Contrary to its mechanical brethren, this is the first robot purposefully designed to inflict pain on humans. In order to ignite an ethical controversy, the robot goes against the author and professor of biochemisty Isaac Asimov’s first and second law […]

06/14/2016 / By Greg White

Autonomous robot sews pig intestine better than human surgeons

Would you trust a surgeon or a robot with your life? Recent events suggest you should prefer the latter. A piece of technology known as the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) did a better job at stitching a pig’s small intestines than human surgeons who performed the same task. The creators of STAR do not […]

09/24/2015 / By Chris Draper

How to kill a Google robot

Horror movie enthusiasts delight in the idea of a zombie apocalypse. So much so that some people have promulgated “how to kill a zombie” guides on the internet. Although there is plenty of information on the web about how to kill zombies, there is little information about how to a kill a more imminent threat: […]

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