Robots
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Australia Gets a National Robotics Strategy: 5 Tech Things to Know in Australia Today
From a national robotics strategy to Apple’s WWDC 2024 event, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia today.
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Tesla Bots Are Walking Slowly Towards Us
In what might potentially be one of the most unsettling videos I’ve seen in a while, Tesla has given an update about its humanoid robots.
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These Robots Go Into Fukushima Daiichi So People Don’t Have To
The idea of a nuclear power plant having a meltdown is one that strikes fear into the hearts of most people. It’s a massively dangerous event that can affect people all around the world and can take decades or more to contain or clean up even then leading to areas becoming uninhabitable for millennia.
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Is It Ethical to Kick a Robot Dog?
Last Saturday night, a young woman out on the town in Brisbane saw a dog-shaped robot trotting towards her and did what many of us might have felt an urge to do: she gave it a solid kick in the head. After all, who hasn’t thought about lashing out at “intelligent” technologies that frustrate us…