Robots
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Robot Peer Pressure Is The Newest Tech Threat To Children
New research shows that children are more likely than adults to give in to peer pressure from robots, a disturbing finding given the rapidly increasing rate at which kids are interacting with socially intelligent machines.
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A Where’s Wally-Finding Robot Is Here To Steal Your Toddler’s Only Job
Tired of that smug look of satisfaction on your kid’s face when they’re able to find Wally on a page faster than you can? A creative agency called RedPepper built a robot that levels the Where’s Wally playing field using a camera and machine learning AI to spot the striped traveller in as little as…
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Boston Dynamics Says It Can Build 1000 Robot Dogs A Year By Mid-2019
Boston Dynamics is preparing to build its terrifying army of robot dogs, according to a Saturday report in Inverse that the company has set a target date of July 2019 as the time it will be ready to manufacture 1000 of its compact SpotMini models annually.
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Australian Scientists (And Elon Musk) Sign Pledge Against Killer Robots
Leading Australian Artificial Intelligence Expert Professor Toby Walsh, along with Google DeepMind, the XPRIZE Foundation and Elon Musk make up just a few of the 2,500+ signatories of a global pledge to “neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons.”