Regulating the development and use of autonomous robots will require a rather more elaborate framework.
The system will be made up of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots.
The swarmanoid that we intend to build will be comprised of numerous (about 60) autonomous robots of three types: eye-bots, hand-bots, and foot-bots.
Dr Arkin has started to survey policymakers, members of the public, researchers and military personnel in order to gauge their views on the use of lethal force by autonomous robots.
So just to mine, we have to develop (a) technologies to mine orders of magnitude more quickly than currently exists (b) with autonomous robots that (c) are capable of self-replication from scratch, that is, by smelting metals and fabricating the other materials necessary from the raw materials of Mercury.
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One way of dealing with these difficult questions is to avoid them altogether, by banning autonomous battlefield robots and requiring cars to have the full attention of a human driver at all times.
All told, prospects look good for these autonomous ocean going robots.
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Fenton sees autonomous, flying robots moving beyond the battlefield, perhaps being used to fight fires as well as battles--with a single human able to survey a five-alarm blaze from the safety of an armchair.
The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.
The researchers' next step is adding in autonomous capabilities so the bots can repair things -- and even build other robots -- without being told to do so.
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In November, DARPA put street-level robots to the test in its Urban Challenge, a race of 12 autonomous cars through simulated city streets populated by obstacle cars.
At this stage, the robots are pre-programmed, but a future goal is to make them autonomous and to increase the number of collaborative units working as one.
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