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Space vehicles for humans must be made safe, while we can risk a bunch of robots without losing sleep.
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Everyone around me seemed like automatons, robots, without the affect I was used to from before the accident.
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However, Dr Kluger said it was now possible to carry out a wide range of interventions using modern surgical techniques without the need for robots.
BBC: Robot reduces spinal surgery risk
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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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Without the military contracts for recon robots, iRobot might not have survived.
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And, because the robots can remain adrift, without requiring refueling, they could potentially monitor myriad tropical storms over the course of an entire hurricane season.
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While a future where robots have taken a lot of our jobs and we live off the dole might still be a really awesome future, I think one where robots vastly increase productivity and wages without causing huge numbers of ZMP workers is likely to be better.
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These robots are intended to select targets and fire without direct human oversight.
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Engineers at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (Grasp) Laboratory at Pennsylvania University have developed ways to make small quadrotor robots fly in formation, co-operate and map their surroundings without global positioning systems (GPS) .
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Hopefully sooner rather than later, all these domesticated, master-serving robots will be able to handle even the most mundane of tasks for us without botching our reputations, like holding down the 9-5 for us while we tee it up.
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