Beyond Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
The “three laws of robotics” was popularized by Isaac Asimov in his short stories collected in I, Robot. The Three Laws are: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human...
View ArticleAre Droids Taking Our Jobs?
Over thirty years ago, Omni magazine featured an article called Robo-Shock!, which Kathleen Stein wrote: For workers, robots or foreign competition is merely a choice between hanging and the electric...
View ArticleThe Robots Are Here
The robots are here indeed. They have already changed the way we work and live, and are challenging our concepts of intelligence, emotion, and individuality. Once the stuff of science fiction, robots...
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30 Famous Robots in Pop Culture
Many people’s first exposure to robots comes from pop culture. After Karel Capek’s groundbreaking play R.U.R., Isaac Asimov was the first person to bring robots into prominence with his series of short...
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Japanese Robots Come of Age
So, for the Japanese, to witness this emerging of robots is like watching small children who are there to help their parents. - Sakyo Komatsu, science-fiction writer Ever since the Czech novelist Karel...
View ArticleThe Rise of Social Robots
The field of social robotics is still in its infancy, but the following innovators have made great strides in designing social robots to be autonomous machines able to react to and communicate with the...
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This is the Uncanny Valley
It’s the familiar colliding with the alien. Our primal instincts want to welcome the android into the pack, even while other evolutionary instincts tell us to bash its head with the nearest bone. -...
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What is a Robot? A Brief History
Robots are machines that are capable of performing tasks on their own and are especially useful for doing monotonous tasks that would wear out an ordinary person or that would expose people to...
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Robots in Space
Over the years, a variety of robots have been developed, or are currently being developed, to serve specific functions in space, including assisting astronauts: Spidernaut, an extravehicular robot...
View ArticleThe Ethical Robot
Using a combination of artificial intelligence techniques and a branch of philosophy called ethical theory, Susan Lee and Michael Anderson accomplished something that had never been done before at that...
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