• Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades

    Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
    ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARKICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARKCybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICHHumanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCEEnjoy today’s videos! One of the most v
  • Here’s the deal: AI giants get to grab all your data unless you say they can’t. Fancy that? No, neither do I | Chris Stokel-Walker

    Here’s the deal: AI giants get to grab all your data unless you say they can’t. Fancy that? No, neither do I | Chris Stokel-Walker
    Data is vital to AI systems, so firms want the right to take it and ministers may let them. We must wake up to the dangerImagine someone drives up to a pub in a top-of-the-range sports car – a £1.5m Koenigsegg Regera, to pick one at random – parks up and saunters out of the vehicle. They come into the pub you’re drinking in and begin walking around its patrons, slipping their hand into your pocket in full view, smiling at you as they take out your wallet and empty it of i
  • AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reaching ‘tipping point’, says watchdog

    AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reaching ‘tipping point’, says watchdog
    Internet Watch Foundation says illegal AI-made content is becoming more prevalent on open web with high level of sophisticationChild sexual abuse imagery generated by artificial intelligence tools is becoming more prevalent on the open web and reaching a “tipping point”, according to a safety watchdog.The Internet Watch Foundation said the amount of AI-made illegal content it had seen online over the past six months had already exceeded the total for the previous year. Continue readi