Robots for Training

Ray Jimenez updates trainers to the growth in using robots to replace humans in repetitive training or communication tasks. Jimenez talks about the special value humans add to communication, especially in an interactive environment, which bots currently lack the flexibility to respond.

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Taxing the Robots

Bill Gates proposes taxing robotic assemblies support the unemployed.

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Mental Communication With Robots

Sharon Gaudin reports on advances in mental communication with robots .

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Remote-Control Robots

Richard Baldwin, in an interview with Douglas Heaven, talks about the increases in productivity which can occur through the use of remote-controlled robots .

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Robotic Delivery

Mike Elgan proclaims that robot delivery will have more impact than drone delivery for most packages.

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Harassing Telemarketers

Katherine Noyes recounts the story of a frustrated telecom professional who created a bot to waste the time of telemarkers. In my mind, this raises ethical issues - what do you think?

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Robots Helping Humans

Sharon Gaudin opins that robots will soon be our personal digital assistants . She quotes Defense researcher Pam Melroy, who is excited about the possibilities of bionic prostheses for wounded veterans:

The ability to control a robotic arm with just thoughts, with an RF signal and a chip in a woman's brain has already been demonstrated. It doesn't yet send signals back, but that will happen and it will close that loop. We are just not that far away from this ability to think things [and make a robot move]. It sounds like magic, but it's all about electrical brain signals.

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Robots

Daniela Rus discusses the past and future of robots at a conference sponsored by Microsoft Research.

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