Robotics Articles Archive
History of Robotics in Medicine: Medical Uses for Robots
Although traditionally the practice of medicine requires a combination of diagnostic and surgical skills…
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How do Social Robots Interact With Humans?
Modern social robots are designed to interact with humans by making use of a variety of sensors that are then…
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A Brief History of Robots and Robotics, from 300 B.C. to 1969
Oxford Dictionaries gives multiple definitions of robot. One is limited to the realm of science fiction, while another is…
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Robots vs. Humans in the Workplace
The title of this article is deliberately provocative, playing on popular fears that the presence of robots in the workplace…
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Robot Ethics and Pepper: Twenty Questions
In early June, parts of the interview were used in her article for Decode Magazine on the use of Pepper Robot in assisting…
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Robot Rights and Electronic Personhood Revisited
This year has seen much talk about and advocacy for granting electronic personhood to advanced robots…
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7 Star Trek Technologies Made Real in the 21st Century
Seven imaginary technologies represented in vintage episodes of the cult Sci-fi series Star Trek that have since…
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Softbank Robotics Pepper Robot Exhibition Pepper World Paris
The Pepper World Paris event was hosted by SoftBank Robotics at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, a large…
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Should we tax robots? Response to Robert Shiller article in The Guardian
In The Guardian, Wednesday 22nd March, 2017, U.S. economist Robert Shiller argues for the taxation of robots…
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Are robots going to steal all our jobs?
There is something of a panic in some quarters about the risk of human jobs being taken by robots in the future…
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Electronic Person Status for Robots – Response to the EU Proposal
A Response to the EU Proposal on Electronic Person Status for Robots, January 2017…
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Virtual Reality and Amazon Echo at Samsung event Inspire Bristol
Samsung hosted an event entitled ‘Inspire: Bristol 16’ at the Bristol Science Centre in Anchor Road…
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Why We Bought a Pepper Robot
It’s been three months now since we have welcomed our new colleague to GWS Media, a digital marketing…
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