Does it matter, that a robot is just a computer with arms? That seems to me to be the core of an interesting debate breaking out in the legal world. Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, … Continue reading Further Reading: Arms and the Metal Man, or the Challenge Bots Pose to the Law
I spoke with Whitney Crooks, a PhD student at Tufts University’s Soft Robotics Lab, because I was intrigued to learn more about her work with Rethink Robotics‘ Baxter. Rethink has been one of the pioneers of “collaborative robotics” — unlike … Continue reading Taking Bots from the Factory To The Living Room: An interview with Whitney Crooks
Beyond Siri: Two updates from BI’s Matt Weinberger on both Microsoft’s and Facebook’s efforts to develop new digital assistants. Can anyone actually stop gamers from being bigoted bastards to each other? League of Legends thinks it can — with the help … Continue reading Roundup for July 14, 2015
Google and Apple want to know what you’re up to there in your car, but car makers don’t want to play ball. Reuters suggest they might be a $40 billion market at stake…. Robots are getting to be a little … Continue reading Roundup for July 13, 2015
What happens when you teach a drone to tail a submarine? Really interesting article on the strategic implications of drone tech for the Navy from David Blagden Those whacky kids over at DARPA are also hoping that A.I. can replace … Continue reading Roundup for July 10, 2015
Quick one today: The WaPo has a roundup on some of the very best ideas for preventing AI from going buck wild (h/t Dominic Basulto) Microsoft’s Li Deng thinks deep learning may have plateaued (h/t Nicole Hemsoth) Wired on what the human propensity to barf may tell us about self-driving vehicles And Slate on how you’ll just have to deal, because self-driving taxis are totally gonna be a thing, and soon (Nature has the full report) Continue reading Roundup for July 8, 2015
Wearable fitness devices are already generating more data than the firms that make them know how to deal with, says Sophie Charara, but machine learning techniques may soon be poised to put it to use. Meanwhile, two Indian startups are … Continue reading Roundup for July 7, 2015
Car as a service: Used to be people would train their dog to bring them the morning paper. In a world of self-driving cars, could yours complete the Starbucks run for you? — Tech Cheat sheet has a run down … Continue reading Roundup for July 6, 2015
Belated roundup today — but I seem to have found my theme: The End. The Economist on big data and the end of insurance as we know it. Don Draper is Dead, or Michael Wolff on the end of advertizing … Continue reading Roundup for July 3, 2015
The bot of the week this week is a prototype robot chef, which debuted at a trade fair in Germany this April. The bot uses a pair of cutting edge robot hands (NASA is another customer) combined with video-game like … Continue reading Bot of the Week: Moley Robotic’s Robot Chef
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