As robotics and Artificial Intelligence enter the dawn of the Singularity, the complexities manifesting from the core threads of behaviors will become as unpredictable as humans…

This week, an attack by robots crippled a local business. The destruction made it impossible for customers to enter the attraction-based establishment. What’s worse, the robots systematically replaced revenue-generating advertisements with very inappropriate ones.
The business was forced to shut down while it fixed the wreckage and replaced the ads. Only time will tell [...]

Paro Robots U.S., Inc. will be distributing Japan’s Intelligent Systems’ artificial life form Paro in the US and Canada. Modeled after a baby harp seal, it is designed to provide therapeutic services to patients with Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia, and emotional complications stemming from the prolonged recovery associated with severe injury [...]

When I discovered Joel Garreau’s article Bots on the Ground, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. He described a scenario where a new kind of military robot was being demonstrated to an Army colonel. The robot was long and segmented with many legs and designed to step on and trigger land mines. It was [...]

This article started out an effort to dig into the interesting and sociological ramifications of developing and embedding a conscience into robots as Ronald Arkin of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing is working to do. I read article after article in order to find and stitch together the technology thread. Instead I [...]

J. Storrs Hall is a noted scientist and author. He is chief scientist at Nanorex and has published extensively on the subject. His most recent book is titled Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine (2007).
Hall spoke at The Singularity Summit this morning on the topic of revising Asimov’s Three Laws of [...]

The Singularity Summit is a two day event happening this weekend in San Francisco. The event is being hosted by SIAI, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. This event is follow-on to last year’s Singularity Summit 1 conducted at Stanford.
Keynoting the event this morning was Rodney Brooks , of CSAIL and iRobot fame. [...]

A team of scientists in the Disease Biophysics Group at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been working on interfacing biological material such as heart muscle tissue with man-made polymers. The team has figured out how to grow muscle tissue in a structured way so as to be able to begin [...]

With 3750 lbs of armaments, a top speed of 300 mph, and the ability to circle the battlefield at 50,000 ft and stay aloft for 16 hours, the new squadron of Reaper unmanned aircraft recently deployed to Afghanistan unleash a new breed of hell on the conflict. As reported in USA Today and [...]

The close timing of three developments reflects a sudden upswing in international awareness that the pace of progress in robotics is rapidly propelling these fields into uncharted ethical realms
Seed: Rise of Roboethics