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A short guide to Multidisciplinary Research
This guide to ‘colliding opposite disciplines with your research’ is intended to help students and researchers, or indeed anyone who might otherwise be looking for some ideas on how to […]
Tackling loneliness with ChatGPT and robots
As the last days of summer set, one is wistful of the time spent with loved ones sitting on the beach, traveling on the road, or just sharing a refreshing […]
The Strange: Scifi Mars robots meet real-world bounded rationality
Even with the addition of a strange mineral, robots still obey the principle of bounded rationality in artificial intelligence set forth by Herb Simon. I cover bounded rationality in my […]
Submersible robots that can fly
Last month, the entire world was abuzz when five über wealthy explorers perished at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean near the grave of the once “unsinkable ship.” Disturbingly, during […]
Titan submersible disaster underscores dangers of deep-sea exploration – an engineer explains why most ocean science is conducted with crewless submarines
Researchers are increasingly using small, autonomous underwater robots to collect data in the world’s oceans. NOAA Teacher at Sea Program, NOAA Ship PISCES, CC BY-SA By Nina Mahmoudian (Associate Professor […]
Automate 2023 recap and the receding horizon problem
“Thirty million developers” are the answer to driving billion-dollar robot startups, exclaimed Eliot Horowitz of Viam last week at Automate. The hushed crowd of about 200 hardware entrepreneurs listened intensely […]
The 5 Laws of Robotics
I have been studying the whole range of issues/opportunities in the commercial roll out of robotics for many years now, and I’ve spoken at a number of conferences about the […]
We need to discuss what jobs robots should do, before the decision is made for us
Shutterstock / Frame Stock Footage By Thusha Rajendran (Professor of Psychology, The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University) The social separation imposed by the pandemic led us to rely on technology to […]