Category: Robotics

Google developing ‘kill switch’ to stop robot uprising against humans

“Safe interruptibility can be useful to take control of a robot that is misbehaving and may lead to irreversible consequences, or to take it out of a delicate situation, or even to temporarily use it to achieve a task it did not learn to perform or would not normally receive rewards for this.””

Google developing ‘kill switch’ to stop robot uprising against humans
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/08/google-developing-kill-switch-to-stop-robot-uprising-against-hum/
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Robots making pizza

Just imagine Domino’s without the labor component, you can start to see how incredibly profitable that can be.  Says Alex Garden, co-founder and executive chairman of Zume, a new startup in Mountain View, trying to make a more profitable pizza through robotics. Another great example of how Silicon Valley startups are hollowing out value out of the … Continue reading "Robots making pizza"

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