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Topic: robotics

February 26, 2024, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, known as Etisalat, is holding a demonstration of an android at the Mobile World Congress. Alongside the android demonstration, the first flying car is being presented, and artificial intelligence applications are taking center stage. (Charlie Perez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Are AI brains in robot bodies conscious?

Rae Hodge
X (Twitter) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk debuts humanoid robot

Kelly McClure
American author of science fiction Isaac Asimov (Getty Images/Salon)

Isaac Asimov's invention of the robot

Terri Favro
This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows two drum-shaped and solar-powered Minerva-II-1 rovers on an asteroid. Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (JAXA via AP)

Sending robot "skins" to space

Shi En Kim - Massive Science
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flies over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. The powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea on Sunday, a clear show of force from the United States as a Cold War-style standoff deepened between its ally Seoul and North Korea following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (AP)

“Alexa, launch our nukes!”

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
This Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo shows an evidence bag from a sexual assault case in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston. Legislators in more than 20 states are considering _ and in some cases, passing _ laws that include auditing all kits and deadlines for submitting and processing DNA evidence. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) (AP)

Putting a dent in the rape kit backlog

Jenny Morber - Undark
"The Truth About Killer Robots" (Courtesy of HBO)

Robots are making us less human, too

Gary M. Kramer
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Operator 4.0: A tech-augmented worker

Thorsten Wuest, David Romero, Johan Stahre - The Conversation
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Weed-killing robots use fewer pesticides

Amber Wang - GearBrain
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Can't we agree to ban "killer robots"?

Bonnie Docherty - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Milking cows for data — not just dairy

Matthew Stuber, Gary Kazmer, Shalabh Gupta, Steven Zinn - The Conversation
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Should we be afraid of killer robots?

Matthew Rozsa
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TOPSHOT - Engineers test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, on December 27, 2016. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie "Avatar" and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images))

Workers for AI

Thomas Kochan, Lee Dyer - The Conversation
(Youtube/CNET)

Don't call her Siri

Alessandra Maldonado
(Getty/Ben Stansall)

Nikolaus Correll - The Conversation
LoweBot (Lowe's)

Scott Eric Kaufman
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Lisa Baugh - Alternet
Alex Garland and Alicia Vikander (Universal Pictures)

Dark secrets of the sex robot

Andrew O'Hehir
Tesla Motors Model S assembly line. (Steve Jurvetson via Flickr)

Salon Staff
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Google vs. our humanity

Evan Selinger
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Prachi Gupta
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