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Robotics

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Apps For Robots: iRobot's AVA At CES

Over Christmas, I received a series 530 Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot.  It cleans the floor really well.  But that is all it does.  This year a…

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Peeping Hals

Peeping Hals, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 175(5-6): 940-941 (2011) * Publication Type:Academic Writing * Publication Date:01/01/2011…

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Robots, Ethics & War

Related to my work here in robot ethics, the following is an advance look at my paper forthcoming in Journal of Military Ethics: Military 2.0: Ethical Blowba…

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Robots: The Law

Ryan Calo is a senior research fellow at Stanford Law School who has specialized in robotics and the law. In his interview with the Robots podcast he discusses…

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Will Robots Be 'Generative'?

I don’t know that generativity is a theory, strictly speaking.  It’s more of a quality.  (Specifically, five qualities.)  The attendant theory, as I read it, is…

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Computers Freedom Privacy... And Robotics

ACM Computers Freedom Privacy is in its 20th year.  This year was exciting to me in that robots entered the mix.  My panel on the topic featured forecaster and…

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Robots and Privacy

Robots and Privacy, in ROBOT ETHICS: THE ETHICAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF ROBOTICS (Patrick Lin et al, eds.) (MIT Press 2012) * Publication Type:Academic Wr…