With a declining population and workers in short supply, Japan has fully embraced robots. But getting them to work to “the standard of humans” is often a challenge.
Tag: Robots and Robotics
‘In Afghanistan, We Laugh Differently’
For a handful of teenage girls, robotics offered a reprieve from their violent, patriarchal country. Now they are back home, with the Taliban poised to gain power.
The Saturday Profile: He Helped Create A.I. Now, He Worries About ‘Killer Robots.’
Still, Yoshua Bengio, an artificial intelligence pioneer and co-winner of this year’s prestigious A.M. Turing prize, says A.I. will prove to be a boon, if regulated.
Chinese Girl Finds a Way Out of Tedious Homework: Make a Robot Do It
After a teenager made the news for buying a machine to mimic her handwriting, many on Chinese social media said she should be praised for her initiative.
A Talking, Dancing Robot? No, It Was Just a Man in a Suit
Russian state TV praised the android as “advanced.” After widespread mockery, the channel said it had never claimed that the robot was real.
11 Things We’d Really Like to Know: How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars?
For better and worse, humans are only improving their ability to deceive themselves with technology.
At War: Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
Under what circumstances should militaries delegate the decision to take a human life to machines? It’s a moral leap that the international community is grappling with.