Yet we should be deeply concerned about the ethics of their use. At stake is the future of what it means to be human, and what it means to care.
"Robots, if they are used the right way and work well, can help people preserve their dignity," says Matthias Scheutz, a roboticist who directs Tufts University's Human-Robot Interaction Lab. "What I find morally dubious is to push the social aspect of these machines when it's just a facade, a puppet. It's deception technology."
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The artificial skin that allows robots to feel - CNN
London (CNN Business) Robots are one step closer to gaining a human sense that has so far eluded them: Touch.
Manufacturing Jobs - Robotic Blacksmithing
Reason Cybertruck is so planar is that you can’t stamp ultra-hard 30X steel, because it breaks the stamping press
This process will likely supersede current technologies, including additive manufacturing and CNC machining, Daehn said. That's partly because the process is sustainable, using standard metals with nothing cut away because it can create goods with higher properties, and partly because machines can work 24/7.
"The idea is rather than adding or subtracting we're changing the shape or we're changing the properties, that's why we call it metamorphic manufacturing," Daehn said.
Alphabet X's new Everyday Robot project wants to build robots that can learn - The Verge
Today, Alphabet's X moonshot division (formerly known as Google X) unveiled the Everyday Robot project , whose goal is to develop a "general-purpose learning robot." The idea is that its robots could use cameras and complex machine learning algorithms to see and learn from the world around them without needing to be coded for every individual movement.
The team is testing robots that can help out in workplace environments, though right now, these early robots are focused on learning how to sort trash. Here's what one of them looks like — it reminds me of a very tall, one-armed Wall-E (ironic, given what the robots are tasked to do):
This may worth something:
Amazon's warehouse robots and their complicated impact on workers - Vox
When the tech industry has come up in the 2020 Democratic presidential debates, the most important discussion topic hasn't been about breaking up the tech giants ; it's been about the automation of jobs and the massive impact this is expected to have on the US labor force.
At the center of this debate is Amazon, a company that employees hundreds of thousands of employees in its massive warehouse network, which is also a company whose investment in robots and other automation technologies means it could one day be a huge job eliminator, too.
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies | Science
Ada, an AI-driven robot, searches for new solar cell designs at the University of British Columbia.
BOSTON— In July 2018, Curtis Berlinguette, a materials scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, realized he was wasting his graduate student's time and talent. He had asked her to refine a key material in solar cells to boost its electrical conductivity. But the number of potential tweaks was overwhelming, from spiking the recipe with traces of metals and other additives to varying the heating and drying times.
Grocery-carrying robots are coming | Toledo Blade
The NHS robots performing major surgery - BBC News
The patient is Stephen O'Reilly, whom I spoke to 20 minutes earlier as he prepared to put his trust in robotic assisted surgery, hoping it would mean he could get back to work more quickly.
"It helps your recovery and stops them having to open you up. The last time I got surgery was in 1992 when I broke my leg. It's a lot different now."
Once he is in the operating theatre and under anaesthetic, the £2m Da Vinci robot takes over from the human team.
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