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October 21, 2019: Station Manager Ken Freedman: human-on-robot violence
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Above from Robot Tries to Escape from Children's Attack (IEEE, June 6, 2017)
Above two images from How to Build Robots People Can Relate To (WSJ, Oct 19).
Recent tech news:
• Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home (BBC, Oct 15)
• Will Oremus on Zuck's Georgetown speech
• Mayor of Sardinian village blames Google Maps for lost tourists (Guardian, Oct 15): "Rescuers in Baunei called out 144 times in past year to save visitors from impassable roads... 'Google Maps does not take people to the places they want to go.'"
• You Can Now License Your Face to Be Used on a Humanoid Robot (Oddity Central, Oct 18)
• Help, I Can't Unsee These Faux-Flesh Phone Cases (Gizmodo, Oct 19)
• Robot Realtors coming to a neighborhood near you (Tennessean, Oct 2): "Home buyers are being greeted by robots when a human sales person isn’t available on site. The robots, officially called Innovative Sales Consultants, are essentially like Segways with an iPad on top of it."
• Palmer Luckey's military tech company Anduril is sending drone destroyers to conflict zones (Business Insider, Oct 3): "The firm says its new 'Interceptor' drone weighs about as much as a bowling ball and is capable of smashing other drones out of the sky."
• People Are Brutally Assaulting Robots. Experts Want to Know Why
• Humans attacking robots over mistrust and fears they will take their jobs (Daily Star, Sep 30)
• British employees are deliberately sabotaging workplace robots over fears the machines will take their jobs, new study claims (Daily Mail, Sep 29)
• Olivia Solon (Oct 8): "Someone tried to use the emergency call function on a robot 'police officer' after a fight broke out in an LA park and - surprise, surprise - it didn't actually call the police. Instead it called the robot's maker, iKnightscope ... The robot told the woman who pressed the emergency alert button to 'step out of the way.'"
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