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Tag: Robotics

  • After 75 years, Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics need updating

    Mark Robert Anderson, Edge Hill University When science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised his Three Laws of Robotics he was thinking about androids. He envisioned a world where these human-like robots would act like servants and would need a set of programming rules to prevent them from causing harm. But in the 75 years since […]

    March 20, 2017
  • Robot babies from Japan raise all sorts of questions about how parents bond with AI

    Driven by a declining population, a trend for developing robotic babies has emerged in Japan as a means of encouraging couples to become “parents”. The approaches taken vary widely and are driven by different philosophical approaches that also beg a number of questions, not least whether these robo-tots will achieve the aim of their creators. […]

    October 17, 2016

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