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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said AI could decide 'humans are a threat' and turn on us

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is 'excited' and 'inspired' by advancements in artificial intelligence but worries 'malign' forces could deploy robots to rule the world

Daily Mirror

Wheeled robots bring space age shopping delivery from city stores to customer doorsteps

The box-shaped wheeled robots have already been spotted roaming the streets on Sale, in Greater Manchester after they hit the roads last week

Daily Mirror

AI may have already taken over the world says Terminator director James Cameron

The filmmaker claims that 'no technology has ever not been weaponised' and that robots could easily kill off mankind

Wales Online

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Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It's complicated

Digital technologies are changing how food is produced. And it’s more than harvesting robots that are arriving on the scene. Companies are now pairing data centres with greenhouses, capturing the heat emitted by computing hardware and reusing it to grow crops indoors.

The Conversation

Lacking health workers, Germany taps robots for elder care

Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) (AFP) - The white-coloured humanoid "Garmi" does not look much different from a typical robot -- it stands on a platform with wheels and is equipped with a black screen on which two blue circles acting as eyes are attached.

AFP

Moment lost 'shopping robot' gets stuck on a kerb during delivery

The company behind the new scheme says the new robots are still 'getting to know the neighbourhood'

Manchester Evening News

How Robots Can Coach Us On Our Mental Health

Scientists believe robots can be useful tools to promote mental well-being in the workplace. The post How robots can coach us on our mental health appeared first on Talker.

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Humanoid robots are coming

A startup called Figure is building a human-sized robot, initially for warehouse work.

Axios

How Robots Can Coach Us On Our Mental Health

Scientists believe robots can be useful tools to promote mental well-being in the workplace. The post How robots can coach us on our mental health appeared first on Talker.

Zenger

Self-driving trucks to deliver robot-fulfilled grocery orders to Kroger stores

Kroger is about to add another layer of automation to its customers’ online grocery orders filled by robots at its new $55 million fulfillment center in southern Dallas.

Tribune News Service

Your groceries will get stocked by robots and delivered by self-driving trucks (if you shop with Kroger)

Also if you live in Dallas.

Fortune

The Co-op to use autonomous robots for deliveries in Greater Manchester

The service in Greater Manchester will initially be available to 24,000 residents across 10,500 households

Birmingham Post

Co-op hires delivery droids to drop groceries in Greater Manchester

Fridge-sized self-drive robots from logistics firm Starship Technologies will ‘walk’ to customer homes in Sale and wait outside for drop-off

The Guardian - UK

Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work if they look right, study suggests

Physical appearance of robots affects how people interact with them, researchers say

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Robots may help improve mental wellbeing at work if they look right – study

The physical appearance of robots affects how people interact with them, researchers found.

The Street

Lowe's' New Security Measure Might Irk Some Customers

Lowe's is employing new technology at some of its stores in a pilot program aimed at improving security.

ABC News

Flinders University scientists use biology from insects to build robots with a brain

Scientists at an Adelaide university reverse-engineer the biology of insects to create a robot that can understand vision it is capturing from a camera.

The Conversation

Robots are performing Hindu rituals -- some devotees fear they'll replace worshippers

It isn’t just artists and teachers who are losing sleep over advances in automation and artificial intelligence. Robots are being brought into Hinduism’s holiest rituals – and not all worshippers are happy about it.

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The Conversation

Amazon still seems hell bent on turning workers into robots – here's a better way forward

The strikes by hundreds of Amazon workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse in the English Midlands have brought into relief some of the problems of work in today’s high-tech society.

The Conversation

We want and we fear emotions in our robots. Here's what science fiction can teach us about flashes of emotion from Bing

Last month, Microsoft integrated its Bing search engine with Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot, a large language model designed to interact with users in a conversational manner.

Inverse

11 Years Ago, the Yakuza Team Made a Wildly Underrated Sci-Fi Shooter

'Binary Domain' is a fascinating one-off experiment by the creators of Yakuza, and it remains one of the most criminally overlooked games of the Xbox 360 era.

The Guardian - UK

Models and robots share the runway at Coperni fashion show

Boston Dynamics’ canine automatons steal show in Paris as maison stages modern fable, designers say

Axios

Robots are your new office security guard

Robot security guards are patrolling office hallways, spotting problems and telling jokes.

Manchester Evening News

ROBOTS spotted driving along Greater Manchester street were 'mapping the area' and will soon be back for more

There was confusion as videos captured them wheeling themselves through streets, with passers by admitting they had to 'look twice'

Fortune

Elon Musk says that A.I. robots will eventually outnumber people: 'It’s not even clear what an economy means at that point'

Tesla's Musk expects humanoid robots to be deployed in industries and homes, tipping the ratio in their favor over humans.

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