Major Airline Issues Ban After Robot Sits In Window Seat On Flight

Southwest Airlines has officially banned human-like and animal-like robots from flying on its planes.The carrier recently ...
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Boxing, Backflipping Robots Rule at China’s Biggest AI Summit

(Bloomberg) -- From lumbering six-foot machines to nimble back-flipping dogs, robots lorded over China’s most important annual AI conference in Shanghai this week. Thousands turned up to gawk at the ...
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For autonomous robots, not all rules are equal

Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn (above), associate professor of computer science at Iowa State University, has devoted much of her career to the development of autonomous vehicles, both in academia and ...
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Before They Can Rule the World, Chinese Robots Need to Master Basic Chores

BEIJING—Humanlike robots are great for entertainment. Menial labor? Not so much. At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing this weekend, more than 500 humanoid robots competed in both sporting ...