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Bekey, George
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
 
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   Roboethics: a navigating overview
Tzafestas S., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 204 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319217-13-0)

The term “roboethics” is due to Gianmarco Veruggio, who introduced it in a workshop at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The term is more popular in Europe than in the US. This book ...

Nov 10 2015  
  An introduction to swarming robotics: application development trends
Abidin Z., Arshad M., Ngah U. Artificial Intelligence Review 43(4): 501-514, 2015.  Type: Article

Swarm robotics is an important area of research and application, involving the coordinated movements of a number of robots. The systems are modeled after insects and other animals that move, forage, and perform other activities in coor...

Sep 8 2015  
  The use of gaze to control drones
Hansen J., Alapetite A., MacKenzie I., Møllenbach E.  ETRA 2014 (Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Safety Harbor, FL, Mar 26-28, 2014) 27-34, 2014.  Type: Proceedings

The control of a flying quad-rotor helicopter by mouse, keyboard, and visual gaze is the main concern of this paper. Control of such variables as translation, altitude, speed, and rotation were performed by gaze or by keyboard. Subject...

Sep 12 2014  
  How to catch a robot rat: when biology inspires innovation
Guillot A., Meyer J., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. 232 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262014-52-6)

This is a remarkable book by two highly respected investigators in biologically inspired robotics and related areas. In spite of the title, it does not concern catching robot rats. Rather, in only about 200 pages, it provides an incred...

Feb 16 2011  
  Beyond Asimov: the three laws of responsible robotics
Murphy R., Woods D. IEEE Intelligent Systems 24(4): 14-20, 2009.  Type: Article

This is a thoughtful paper on the problems and perils of Asimov’s laws of robotics, particularly in human-robot interaction (HRI), by two major practitioners in the field. Murphy and Woods state and describe the major limitat...

Feb 5 2010  
  Governing lethal behavior in autonomous robots
Arkin R., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2009. 256 pp.  Type: Book (9781420085945)

Robots have evolved rapidly from science fiction and university laboratories to becoming commonplace in industry, education, entertainment, and the military. As their capabilities and ability to operate autonomously have grown, so has ...

Oct 26 2009  
   The robot: the life story of a technology
Nocks L., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 224 pp.  Type: Book (9780801890710)

This book is a remarkably complete history of robotics, from early descriptions of simple mechanisms and the automata of the nineteenth century, to the rise of industrial robotics and contemporary mobile robots. While Nocks is a histor...

Jun 8 2009  
   AI armageddon and the three laws of robotics
Mccauley L. Ethics and Information Technology 9(2): 153-164, 2007.  Type: Article

Robots are in the news constantly these days. On one hand, they are used increasingly to assist us in the home, for entertainment purposes, or as components of prosthetic devices; on the other hand, the military uses more and more robo...

Sep 5 2008  
  The robotics primer (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)
Mataric M., The MIT Press, 2007. 288 pp.  Type: Book (9780262633543), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Marvelous and unique, this book is designed to make the field of robotics accessible to readers from, perhaps, age 12 through graduate school. It captures the excitement about robots that many of us old-time roboticists feel, and prese...

Feb 6 2008  
  The attentional spotlight
Bryson J. Minds and Machines 16(1): 21-28, 2006.  Type: Article

Bryson was a PhD student in the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab in the late 1990s. The paper is a highly personal view of the Cog project at that time. In addition to various observations on AI in general, and behavior-based AI in...

Mar 21 2007  
 
 
 
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