Some battle-hardened warriors treat remote-controlled devices like brave, loyal, intelligent pets, while others describe them as clumsy, stubborn clods. Either way, observers have interpreted these accounts as unsettling glimpses of a future in which men and women ascribe personalities to artificially intelligent war machines.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/military-robots
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Here comes anthrobot
Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and […] have dubbed these creations anthrobots
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/30/world/living-robots-from-human-cells-scn/index.html
Fully autonomous killer drones are “a logical and inevitable next step”
Drones can already recognize targets such as armored vehicles using cataloged images. But there is disagreement over whether the technology is reliable enough to ensure that the machines don’t err and take the lives of noncombatants.
Source: Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots | AP News
Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
Always blame the child
Study finds that robots can pressure people to do risky things | Boing Boing
Study finds that robots can pressure people to do risky things | Boing Boing
“The robot made me do it”
The results showed that the group who were encouraged by the robot took more risks
Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness
Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness
The robots’ limitations centred on their conversations feeling
superficial and lacking “richness”, users said. They lacked
personalisation and sometimes did not show enough cultural awareness,
and their head movements and hand gestures were sometimes distracting.
On a side note, this article is a text-book example on how to avoid speaking about the fact that capital prefers investing money in tech than to pay social workers.
American robots lose jobs to Asian robots as Adidas shifts manufacturing
American robots lose jobs to Asian robots as Adidas shifts manufacturing
The Adidas factories were part of a drive to meet demand for faster delivery of new styles to its major markets and to counter rising wages in Asia and higher shipping costs. […] Martin Shankland, Adidas’ head of global operations, said the factories had helped the company improve its expertise in innovative manufacturing, but it aimed to apply what it had learned with its suppliers.
North Carolina couple call cops on midnight intruder that turns out to be their robot vacuum
Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots
Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots
In one incident, office workers bullied an HR chatbot so terribly that management wondered if the workers should be fired.