Is Tricking a Robot Hacking?
Abstract The term “hacking” has come to signify breaking into a computer system. A number of local, national, and international laws seek to hold hackers accou…
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Robots to deliver Yelp Eat24 dinners in two SF neighborhoods
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at University of South Carolina and Stanford who studies autonomous vehicles, said he thinks ground robots could even…
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Factory worker killed by rogue robot, says widowed husband in lawsuit
"“It’s the fear of robots,” Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Center for internet and Society at Stanford Law School who studies driverless cars, said.…
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Robots Are Developing Feelings. Will They Ever Become "People"?
"Robots can show emotions without actually having emotions, though. "Robots are now designed to exhibit emotion," says Patrick Lin, director of t…
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In an apparent first, Dallas police used a robot to deliver bomb that killed shooting suspect
"The way the robot was used in the Dallas case is likely legally no different from sending an officer in to shoot a hostile suspect, according to Universit…
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Bomb Robots: What Makes Killing In Dallas Different And What Happens Next?
""Given how many police [departments] have robots and given how versatile they are and the various uses to which they've been put, including in ho…
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Nine key legal cases about robots, and the messy legal future of robotic devices
"Robot legal theorist Ryan Calo writes, "I thought you might enjoy my new paper, canvassing decades of American case law involving robots. Courts have…
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The Air Force Wants You to Trust Robots. Should You?
"Automation extends far beyond the battlefield, sometimes with profound implications. Peter Asaro, a philosopher who studies artificial intelligence, says…
The dangers of trusting robots
In February, a South Korean woman was sleeping on the floor when her robot vacuum ate her hair, forcing her to call for emergency help. It may not be the dystop…
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The Law and the Robot
"“The law tends to assume that people intend what they do, or at least are able to foresee the consequences of what they do,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant…
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Law Must Catch Up with Rise of Robotics
"A new article calls for the law to catch up with robotic technology. Ryan Calo, assistant professor in the University of Washington School of Law, says it…
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Conference explores regulating robots in the near future
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the UW School of Law, is clear about the significance of We Robot, an annual conference on robotics law and polic…