Tag: ISAAC ASIMOV

Boulder, Colorado carries a reputation as an idyllic college town where free spirits and outdoor enthusiasts whimsically cavort among sun-drenched mountains. The town's dreadlocked preppy-hippies must have cowered in fear, though, when suicidal robots overran the pristine community during the recent Antimov competition. Sponsored by SparkFun Electronics, the Antimov contest aims to disprove ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. 'Ask Steve' reimagines everyone's favorite turtlenecked CEO as a Dear Abby daily newspaper columnist. [From: Me & Her] HTML5 experiments that pushthe limits of ...

The groundwork for robotic morality was laid by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who created the 'Three Laws of Robotics.' Taking these ideas to war, Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ron Arkin has tried to establish ethical mores for bots on the battlefield. Arkin, who used an advanced simulation system called MissionLab to create scenarios based on real-life, tested artificial ...