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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosImage: PAL Robotics/YouTubeHappy Robot Holidays!
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!):IEEE IRC 2018 – January 31-2, 2018 – Laguna Hills, Calif.HRI 2018 – March 5-8, 2018 – Chicago, Ill.Let

An MIT student lab shows how to trick computer vision AI so it sees the wrong objects in picturesPhoto: Dageldog/iStockTricking Google’s computer vision AI into seeing a dog as a pair of human skiers may seem mostly harmless. But the possibilities become more unnerving when considering how hackers could trick a self-driving car’s AI into seeing a plastic bag instead of a child up ahead. Or making future surveillance systems overlook a gun because they see it as a toy d

A dystopian future in which killer robots are massacring innocents is terrifying, but let’s be clear: It's very much science fictionImage: Slaughterbots/YouTubeA scene from "Slaughterbots," a film that depicts a dystopian future in which autonomous lethal drones fall into the hands of terrorists.This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.Killer drones in the hands of terrorists massacring in

Sexual harassment and groping allegations against a suspended researcher are part of an industry culture that condones sexist behavior, women say
Katherine Heller felt helpless. The Duke University professor was at a statistics conference last year when, she said, she witnessed Steven Scott, a senior artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at Google, make sexual advances on one of her female students.According to Heller, when she spoke to Scott later at an event dinner, he was defensive and told