Robots
Robotics is the science of creating artificial intelligence. From the simplest of automated machines to the most complex “real” transformers, robots are more ubiquitious than you might imagine.
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With the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots heating up, we step back a few decades to look at the first human death by robot.
By Bryan Young
There's more to replacing human riders than just using cool tech, as the advancement helps solve a serious human rights issue.
By Chris Opfer
The android known as FEDOR used pistols to display its decision making and dexterity, officials said, not as a preview of robot warfare.
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A robot to simulate mudskipper locomotion gives scientists a look into the success of the first land vertebrate ancestors, and points to our future on other planets.
A Google engineer made headlines for claiming that an AI called LaMDA had become sentient or conscious. While many AI scientists disagreed, what would it take for an AI to ever become sentient?
Maillardet's Automaton, built around 1800, can write poems and draw pictures and was a precursor to today's sophisticated robots.
Well, heck yeah, we can, and we have. Let's take a look.
By Robert Lamb
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"Hahaha ... we've come to destroy your world!" Or so it must read in the chapter of the "Evil Robot Handbook" on what to say when you first encounter humans. Here are 10 robots you really don't want to mess with.