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Darwin's Robots | h+ Magazine
This experiment in swarm robotics shows both the coordination of multi-robot systems consisting of large numbers of simple physical robots and the evolution of collective communication behaviors. The study of artificial swarm intelligence as well as the biological studies of insects, ants, and other swarms in nature provides insight into the nature of intelligence in general, and offers an interesting perspective on the nature of Darwinian selection, competition, and cooperation.
Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 2
The theatre of war is changing, radically. With a push towards autonomous, robotic devices capable of killing - should the Laws of War change? One artificial intelligence leader argues machines could be more ethical and humane than humans in the battlefield. But, with thousands of robotic devices already being deployed, is robotics keeping up with ethics? (All In The Mind - 8 August 2009)
Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 1
Robots are among us. They might be on their way in to childcare and aged care as silicon carers too. Will the 'digital natives' born today be more comfortable with that prospect? And, many thousands have now been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with billions being invested in the development of fully autonomous killing agents. Will they fight fairly? Could they be more ethical and humane than humans? Over a series of shows, Natasha Mitchell speaks to leading roboticists and thinkers about the brave new now. (All In The Mind - 1 August 2009)
Will ‘Rubi the Robot’ Be the Ultimate Teacher’s Aide?: Machine Learning and the Transformation of Education
The Dana Foundation - Q&A with TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI, Ph.D.
Robots evolve to deceive one another
In a Swiss laboratory, a group of ten robots is competing for food. Prowling around a small arena, the machines are part of an innovative study looking at the evolution of communication
Call for debate on killer robots
An international debate is needed on the use of autonomous military robots, a leading academic has said. (BBC NEWS | Technology)
Personal Robotics Group
- We are developing a team of 4 small mobile humanoid robots that possess a novel combination of mobility, moderate dexterity, and human-centric communication and interaction abilities. Our collaborators include Xitome Design and UMASS Amherst. We refer to this class of robots as "MDS" for Mobile/Dexterous/Social.
Ray Kurzweil Wants to Be a Robot
Ray Kurzweil can't wait to be a Cyborg—a human mind inside an everlasting machine. But is this the next great leap in human evolution, or just one man's midlife crisis writ large?
Curious: Robots
How can what we learn about the brain teach us to teach robots? Can we build a machine that can make learn and make decisions? If we mirror the brain's neural hardware, can we create a machine with a soul? (YouTube)
Are Minds Really Like Computers?
Some people use the metaphor of the mind as a computer in promoting the idea that a mind can be replicated on a computer. It’s a dubious comparison, a writer says.
Researchers Tweak Roomba to Respond to Emotions
Researchers at the University of Calgary tricked out an iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner to react to signals such as muscle tension and eye movement in a bid to test limited brain-computer interaction between humans and robots. (Gadget Lab from Wired.com)
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen
Moral Machines is an introduction to this newly emerging area of machine ethics. It is written primarily to stimulate further inquiry by both ethicists and engineers. As such, it does not get bogged down in dense philosophical or technical prose. In other words, it is comprehensible to the general reader, who will walk away informed about why machine morality is already necessary, where we are with various attempts to implement it, and the authors’ recommendations of where we need to be.
The Ethics of Killer Robots
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
That was a popular slogan for peace demonstrators of the Vietnam era (including me).
It might be repeated, with a slight revision, at some point during this century:
What if they gave a robot war and nobody came?
The Living Robot
The robot now gets around well enough. “But it has a biological brain, and not a computer,” says Warwick, and so it must navigate based solely on the very limited amount of information it receives from a single sensory device. If the number of sensory devices connected to its brain increases, it will gain a better understanding of its surroundings. “I have another student now who has started to work on an audio input, so in some way we can start communicating with it,” he says.
The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse them (Scientific American)
A Review of the Best Robots of 2008
Robot innovation continued its relentless advances during 2008. In this post we would like to showcase some of our favorite robots and robot videos of the last year or so. (Singularity Hub)
Basics - In an Age of Robots, One to Clean the House? Still but a Dream
That today’s experimental robots bear little physical resemblance to our fantasy androids reflects a larger truth in the field of robotics, the attempt to build thinking machines that can perceive the world around them and then act on that awareness. Researchers are far, far from being able to design a Rosie Jetson or a Data, or even a Diaper Data. You can ask a human toddler to bring you the red ball from behind the sofa, and the toddler will comply. Ask a machine to perform the same seemingly ho-hum task? “We’re not even close,” said Seth Teller of M.I.T. - NYTimes.com
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