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Robots and AI could transform our lives, so we must decide how we want to use them.
Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to human needs could help make them more useful in many contexts.
With Amazon facing worker battles in the UK, US and Germany, no wonder people worry about how technology is changing workplaces.
If we’re going to put an AI brain somewhere, it’s likely going to be a robot. The next step – making that robot immortal.
Computer-based neural networks can learn to do tasks. A new type of material, called a mechanical neural network, applies similar ideas to a physical structure.
The sentient, murderous humanoid robot is a complete fiction, and may never become reality. But that doesn’t mean we’re safe from autonomous weapons – they are already here.
Humanoid robots could be useful in all kinds of situations, but the one Elon Musk unveiled last week is far from being ready to roll out.
To maintain our role as a global food bowl, Australia has to keep innovating in agricultural technology.
Videos of humanoid robots dancing and performing backflips in the lab notwithstanding, robots that wash your dishes and fold your laundry are still years away. A roboticist explains why.
Diverging views on automated weapons systems could make it difficult for Australia and New Zealand to manage military ties at a delicate time in trans-Tasman relations.
Our interviews with ex-automotive workers reveal how economic change interrupts lives, casting people into new worlds of precarious work and long, indefinite journeys in search of security.
Robots a fraction of a millimetre small could swim around your eye or bloodstream for medical treatments in the future.
Bees offer insights into many scientific questions, from cooperating in close quarters to strategies for finding food.
Up to 40% of all jobs now are tipped to be taken over by AI and robots in the next few decades. My grandmother, born on a farm almost a century ago, has some advice on how to cope.
Sci-fi nightmares of a robot apocalypse aside, autonomous weapons are a very real threat to humanity. An expert on the weapons explains how the emerging arms race could be humanity’s last.
With advances in technology, robots and artificial intelligence have increasingly more sophisticated encounters with humans.
From robotic hands to brain-like computers, the Human Brain Project has produced some intriguing results.
Researchers used an old theory on vibrating plane wings to study how fish swim so well. They were able to double the swimming efficiency of their robotic fish over a range of speeds.
Fish fins are extremely flexible yet also strong. A special segmented fin design is the key to this useful combination of properties and could inspire new morphing materials.
Top contributors
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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Reader in Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Department of Philosophy; Adjunct Professor, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University
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Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI, De Montfort University
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Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Cyber Security, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
