Have questions about robots and artificial intelligence?
Shutterstock
November 15, 2015
Toby Walsh , Data61 ; David Dowe , Monash University ; Gary Lea , Australian National University ; Jai Galliott , UNSW Sydney ; Jonathan Roberts , Queensland University of Technology ; Katina Michael , University of Wollongong ; Kevin Korb, Monash University ; Robert Sparrow , Monash University , and Sean Welsh , University of Canterbury
Is genuine artificial consciousness possible? Should we protect jobs from automation? Your questions on AI and robots answered here.
Aldebaran’s Pepper robot is designed to respond to human emotion.
Aldebaran
Building genuine empathy into artificial intelligence is harder than it looks. It might be a while before we see the genuine article in robots.
Time for children to start learning how to build robots?
www.shutterstock.com
Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
Universal Pictures
A call to ban sex robots is the same knee-jerk reaction faced by other technological advances, and as wrong-headed.
Your shirt, sir.
Gerardo Camarasa
Sorting and folding clothes is a lot more difficult than when you’re a robot.
Any questions for Robbie?
JD Hancock/Flickr
Have questions about artificial intelligence or the future of robotics? Wondering if your job is vulnerable to automation? Concerned about superintelligent AI? Now’s your chance to ask.
The challenge in making AI machines appear more human.
Flickr/Rene Passet
If we can make artificial intelligent machines that act more human it raises the question of what sort of emotions we’d like them to express.
What can leggings and leotards teach us about about physics and neuroscience?
www.shuttershock.com
For a growing number of artists, academics, researchers and scientists, dance represents a promising new frontier of exploration. The annual DANscienCE festival shines a spotlight on their findings.
Robots in chains but are they really to blame when AI does something wrong?
maxuser
There is much debate on the ethics of artificial intelligence machines that are designed to kill. But who’s responsible when a non-lethal AI system causes damage, harm or even death?
The military robots in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 might not be so far from reality.
Marvel Studios/Paramount Pictures
Some have argued we should not ban but embrace offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’. But the arguments against a ban are weak.
And the crowd goes wild as number 5 kicks the winning goal!
Sean Harris/UNSW
Hey robot sports fans, here’s the inside story on how UNSW won the world championship in robot soccer last week.
AI researchers should work to make future battlefield robots more ethical.
Sandia Labs/Flickr
If military robots are inevitable, then AI and robotics researchers should work to make them ethical, not retreat by calling for an ineffectual ban.
A ban on killer robots is useless if your enemy doesn’t play by the rules.
Flickr/Bob Snyder
The thousands of people who signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous killer weapons and robots are misguided. We already have such killing machines and we should embrace them.
Scientists have figured out how to make this…with graphene.
McEuen Group, Cornell University
Who says scientists aren’t artistic? A team of researchers have done some amazing kirigami work, an ancient Japanese paper art, using graphene.
Today’s Da Vinci sticks to surgery rather than the wide interests of its namesake.
Intuitive Surgical
Robotic surgeon assistants are growing in popularity, but aren’t always team players.
Science fiction abounds with warnings concerning offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’.
superde1uxe/Flickr
We need to ban offensive autonomous weapons - or ‘killer robots’ - before a new arms race to produce them begins.
Joyce van Belkom/EPA
The competitors of the robot world cup are creeping closer to the goal of a robotic team that can beat the best human players.
Is there a lift? I’m trying to conquer the universe and I need to reach the first floor.
Les Chatfield/Flickr
A new hopping robot shows how unusual 3D printed structures could pave the way for machines that better mimic living creatures.
I didn’t do it!
Jiuguang Wang/flickr
If we start holding robots responsible for their actions – and accidents – we let their human designers and operators off the hook.
How can I serve you?
Franck Robichon/EPA
We can give robots smiling mouths but until we can put emotion into their eyes as well we’re better off with less human-looking designs.