Topic: Noel Sharkey
The Navy's new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It's designed to land on the deck of an aircraft...
Douglas Quan/Postmedia News Files. The Predator B unmanned surveillance aircraft. . Warrior robots have always engendered fear and fascination...
United States - with their heavy armor and the ever growing list ofgadgets peak, the soldiers are now more than 45 kg of equipment. Thedog-robot "Big Dog" designed to carry loads should transform the livesof troops at the front. The Pentagon has already ...
Well the debate with the rise and rall of the stock market has Gold in the spotlight. Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield said that a push toward more robotic technology used in warfare would put civilian life at grave risk ...
Could teaching kids how robots are used in the real world create a new generation of designers to build revolutionary machines? In a study echoing the 1983 "draw me a scientist" test - in which researcher David Chambers, now of the Institute of ...
Sporting a gaping air intake in place of a cockpit, the UK's first uncrewed fighter aircraft was unveiled at an airfield in Warton, Lancashire, today.. Taranis is the UK government's response to the dominance of US technology in the uncrewed ...
Diesel? Sullivan was doing his daily rounds at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas when he got the call. Sullivan walked out of the heat and into the small, single-wide trailer operations room (the ?ops cell?) to assess the situation firsthand ...
Noel Sharkey's rejection of the computational theory of mind - the theoretical foundation of artificial intelligence - is a breath of fresh air (29 August, p 28). As Sharkey rightly says, the intelligence is in the human who creates the program, not in ...
A robotics expert, a physicist, a bioethicist and a philosopher have founded the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) to campaign for limits on robotic military hardware.. Roboticist Noel Sharkey at the University of Sheffield, UK, and his colleagues set up ...
The increasing deployment of gun-toting robots by the U.S. military and other armed forces around the world could end up endangering civilian lives and giving terrorists new ideas, warns a U.K. robotics professor. The prospect of armed, autonomous robots is ...
