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Algorithms are only as good as the people who make them.
Robots can’t get COVID-19, so employing them in some jobs could help ease the limitations of stay-at-home orders and keep frontline workers protected.
Lightweight, flexible materials can be used to make health-monitoring wearable devices, but powering the devices is a challenge. Using fuel cells instead of batteries could make the difference.
Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
AI can supplement the efforts of available medical personnel - and help keep them safe.
With the enhanced capabilities of today’s robots and drones, recent examples from China and Thailand and ongoing research show that they have the potential to help us navigate disasters.
Having robots and other AI systems tell people what the AIs are doing makes them more trustworthy. A study finds that how a robot explains itself matters.
Sex technologies and ‘erobots’ could help address issues related to human desire, and physical and emotional needs of astronauts in space.
At Christmas shopping, you may have noticed toys are becoming very complex. They fly, hop, jump and follow you around – some even need to be ‘connected’. But why are we seeing such technical advances?
At the heart of the debate is that most fundamental question: what does it mean to be human?
As machine automation and artificial intelligence surge, there’s paranoia our jobs will be overrun by robots. But even if this happens, work won’t disappear, because humans need it.
Sexbot advertising promises more than just sex toys. It is also trying to sell us a soulmate or trusted friend.
Automation does threaten jobs, but the most widely cited study exaggerates the effect and pointed to job losses in places where they didn’t happen.
A safer, more flexible type of industrial robot is disrupting manufacturing.
Many Americans fear that AI will take their jobs. And it might – but it’s more complicated than that.
If artificial intelligence can amaze us with its prowess, there are many areas where it falls flat when compared to human and animal intelligence.
We are far from defenseless against the rise of robots, although they’ll take many of our routine jobs. Our special strength is our ability to apply rules that don’t exist.
The revolution in offshore wind for UK energy supply has begun, but we will need the help of AI and robots to sustain it effectively.
Alan Turing devised a way to test if AI is functionally the same as a human – we’ve done the same for androids.
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, University of Birmingham
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Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Leverhulme Fellow and Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Economist, Data61, CSIRO
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Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
