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Category: Industrial
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We Need a Fourth Law of Robotics for AI
In 1942, the legendaryscience fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.
- First Law: A robot may not injure a human…
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Roborock Saros Z70, SwitchBot, and More
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Wybot S3 Pool Cleaning Robot Announced at CES 2025
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down to…
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Researchers find betrayal doesn’t necessarily make someone less trustworthy if we benefit
Imagine this scenario: Two people cheat on their partners with each other and then leave their partners to be together. Should they trust each other, or “once a cheater, always a cheater”?
Intuition and past research suggest that whether people…
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Is there really a mid-career crisis? Job satisfaction follows a U-shaped curve only among highly skilled workers, according to new study
Contrary to the long-held belief that the mid-career crisis plagues everyone, new research suggests that job satisfaction follows a U-shaped trajectory only for managerial and professional workers. This provocative finding challenges societal…
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SwitchBot K20+ Pro Modular Home Robot at CES
Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that…
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Growing divide: Agricultural climate policies affect food prices differently in poor and wealthy countries
Farmers are receiving less of what consumers spend on food, as modern food systems increasingly direct costs toward value-added components like processing, transport, and marketing. A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research…
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Android Baby, Nao Robocup, and More
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