Robot Vacuums and Surveillance
This week’s big robot news:
Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Sold
Your Roomba Is Also Gathering Data about the Layout of Your Home
Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be shared
Roomba’s Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder
iRobot’s CEO defends Roomba home mapping as privacy concerns arise
Roomba walks back plan to sell maps of your house to Amazon and Google
Robot Futurists
Why Zuckerberg and Musk Are Fighting About the Robot Future
This famous roboticist doesn’t think Elon Musk understands AI (Funnily enough, this roboticist is the cofounder of iRobot, maker of the Roomba.)
Flying Robots
Drone registration coming to the UK
Stanford Launches Platform Lab for Centralized Control of Autonomous Cars, Drones
Robot Cars
Autonomous driving will bring forced obsolescence to cars
Low-Quality Lidar Will Keep Self-Driving Cars in the Slow Lane
Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety’s Sake
Forrester: self-driving to make global economy “unrecognizable” by 2035
Daimler and Bosch create a driverless parking garage
Military Robots
US Army Researching Bot Swarms
US Navy lab tests “disposable” microdrones that glide down from the sky
Sex Robots
Robot Language
Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
AI Shouldn’t Believe Everything It Hears
Robot Doctors
IBM’s AI can predict schizophrenia by looking at the brain’s blood flow
Retail Robots
Robots Are Replacing Workers Where You Shop
Delivery Robots
This little delivery robot is carrying a belly full of sushi
Science Fiction Robots
“We’ve been having URBAN NIGHTMARES”
Robot Teachers
Tutorbots are here – 7 ways they could change the learning landscape
Marketing Robots
What educators must learn from IBM’s ‘betrayal of science’
Why automation is different this time
Robot Workers
Shouldn’t the Robots Have Eaten All the Jobs at Amazon By Now?
Robot Babysitters
IOT Sleepbuddy, the Robotic Babysitter
How AI can help make safer baby food (and other products)
Robot Environmentalists
The Envirobot robo-eel slithers along the shore for science
Robot Athletes
Artificial Intelligence in Vi Earphones Improves Fitness Training
Chinese Robots
China says it’ll be world AI leader by 2025
Chinese State Council Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence
Robot Researchers
2 Cornell U Teams Land up to $15 Million to Study AI, Autonomous Systems
Carnegie Mellon Debuts Initiative to Combine Disparate AI Research