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Living with robots
Dody Arfiansyah | January 11, 2023Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities and making life easier for residents but by doing so create more challenges for policymakers.
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Robots can’t do everything
Robots in Public Space | January 7, 2023Rather than thinking about how we can simplify cities to accommodate robots, we need robots that work in existing urban environments in all their diversity and complexity.
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A world of 250 million robots
Seng Boon Lim | November 25, 2022Robots will shape the cities of the future — from educating children, to cleaning streets, to protecting borders from military threats and much more.
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Robots at work
Juan Manuel Corchado | November 4, 2022From taking tours to reducing traffic, the influence of robots on cities is growing fast. But it might be scratching the surface of what’s possible.
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Don’t bet the farm on agricultural robots
Daniel Casagrande | July 8, 2022Robots can help farmers improve crop yields and ease labour shortages but their adoption has been much slower than in other realms such as manufacturing.
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Bladerunner 2022
Jeannie Marie Paterson | February 23, 2022In 1982, Blade Runner floored audiences with its technodystopian depiction of the future. Almost 40 years on, some of these projections seem eerily and depressingly accurate today, particularly in the development of humanoid robots.
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Robo-pets!
Ben Knight | December 20, 2020If having a pet just isn’t practical for your accommodation or lifestyle, could a robotic companion be the next best thing?
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Slavery and society
Alan Stevenson | December 15, 2020Society should define tasks best left to humans, as well as what can safely be left to autonomous machines, as once a machine takes over a task it will not be an easy to reclaim it.
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Robots and the law
Alan Stevenson | December 12, 2020Autonomous machines able to think and act for themselves were once the stuff of science fiction, but now they are becoming reality, we need to delve back into a classic novel series for rules to protect ourselves.
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Negotiating the morality of human-robot relations
Rachel Gray | November 17, 2020Designers who use ethics to shape better companion robots will end up making better humans too.
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Meet your new robot health coach
Nicole Robinson | July 9, 2020New research shows “social robots” can help people lose weight by delivering multiple sessions of advice and support without the need for human intervention.
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The robot revolution is already here
Jonathan Roberts | May 11, 2019The robot revolution is happening right so how much do you know about the impact of programmable machines in your everyday life?
