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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

3 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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The real world is anything but binary. It is fuzzy and indistinct, with lots of options and potential outcomes, full of complexity and nuance. Our societies create laws and cultural norms to provide and maintain some semblance of order, but such structures are often open to interpretation, and they shift…

What Does “Human Control” Over Autonomous Systems Mean?

3 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed in 2018 and 2019 due to sensor failures that led to autopilot malfunctions that two human pilots were unable to overcome. Also in 2018, an Uber autonomous vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, even though a person in the car was supposed…

How Can We Make Sure Autonomous Weapons Are Used Responsibly?

3 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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International discussions about autonomous weapons systems (AWS) often focus on a fundamental question: Is it legal for a machine to make the decision to take a human life? But woven into this question is another fundamental issue: Can an automated weapons system be trusted to do what it’s expected to…

How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?

3 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Lethal autonomous weapons systems can sound terrifying, but autonomy in weapons systems is far more nuanced and complicated than a simple debate between “good or bad” and “ethical or unethical.” In order to address the legal and ethical issues that an autonomous weapons system (AWS) can raise, it’s important to…

Innovative Shins Turns Quadrupedal Robot Biped

2 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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The word “quadruped” means, technically, “four feet.” Roboticists tend to apply the term to anything that uses four limbs to walk, differentiating it from bipedal robots, which walk on two limbs instead. But there’s a huge, blurry crossover there, in both robotics and biology, where you find animals (and occasionally…

Eat This Drone

1 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Drones have the potential to be very useful in disaster scenarios by transporting food and water to people in need. But, whenever you ask a drone to transport anything, anywhere, the bulk of what gets moved is the drone itself. Most delivery drones can only carry about 30 percent of…

DRAM’s Moore’s Law Is Still Going Strong

1 Νοεμβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Memory and storage chip maker Micron Technology says it is shipping samples of the most bit-dense DRAM memory chips yet. Compared with its own previous generation, the 16-gigabit DRAM chip is 15 percent more power efficient and 35 percent more dense. Notably, Micron achieved the improvement without resorting to the…

Video Monday: IROS 2022 Award Winners

31 Οκτωβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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IROS 2022 took place in Kyoto last week, bringing together thousands of roboticists from around the world to share all the latest awesome research they've been working on. We've got a bunch of stuff to bring you from the conference, but while we work on that (and recover from some…

Nanowire Synapses 30,000x Faster Than Nature’s

28 Οκτωβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly limited by the hardware used to implement them. Now comes a new superconducting photonic circuit that mimics the links between brain cells—burning just 0.3 percent of the energy of its human counterparts while operating some 30,000 times faster.In artificial neural networks, components dubbed neurons are…

Micro 4D Printing Builds on Programmable Matter

28 Οκτωβρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Objects that can transform themselves after they’ve been built could have a host of useful applications in everything from robotics to biomedicine. A new technique that combines 3D printing and an ink with dynamic chemical bonds can create microscale structures whose size and mechanical properties can be dynamically tuned after…

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