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New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of Robotics

Posted by michael on from the welcome-our-new-robotic-overlords dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "The robotics actuality is pretty rich these days. Besides the fighting robots of Robo-One and the flying microrobots from Epson (the best picture is at Ananova), here are some the latest intriguing news in robotics. In Japan, Yoshiyuki Sankai has built a robot suit, called Hybrid Assistive Limb-3 (or HAL-3), designed to help disabled or elderly people. In the U.S., Ohio State University is developing a robotic tomato harvester for the J.F. Kennedy Space Center while Northrop Grumman received $1 billion from the Pentagon to build a new robotic fighter. I kept the best for the end. A Californian counselor has just patented the ten ethical laws of robotics. A good read for a Sunday, if you can understand what he means. This summary only focuses on HAL-3 and one of the most incredible patents I've ever seen, so please read the above articles for more information about the other subjects."

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  1. I want a robot to jack me off. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can you live with that, America?

  2. This is awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am going to beat the fucking shit out of you

  3. Twitter: Life and times of a petulant cock-gobbler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twitter, you're a petulant cock-gobbling sycophant to Linux Torvaldyos! Quit taking DP from ESR and RMS's feculent cocks and why don't you try to stop sucking quite so much? Get out of your parents' basement and see the real world - maybe then you'll see how pathetic you sound, with your neverending stream of bullshit about how Microsoft is stalking you. Wasn't it you who said that Microsoft believes your insane ranting is actually a threat to them, so they PAY PEOPLE to reply to you on Slashdot? No sir, I don't get any money. I do it for the love. Someone has to go up against your paranoid whining. So get back in your cage and shut the fuck up already.

  4. Re:worthless too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i will beat the fucking shit out of you

  5. pseudoscience != technology by rtv · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think robots are cool, so I checked these links out with interest, to find... WTF? What a horrible juxtaposition of real engineering with total mubo-jumbo bullshit. I hope the HAL-3 designers never find out they've been linked next to this stuff.

    The author of the linking article admits he doesn't understand the 10 law stuff, but isn't quite confident enough to call it out as crap. It's crap. Sub-scientology nonsense that isn't even internally comprehensible.