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Asleep at the Switch? How Killer Robots Become a Force Multiplier of Military Necessity

Kerr, Ian R.; Szilagyi, Katie - 2019

Lethal autonomous weapons — machines that might one day target and kill people without human intervention or oversight — are gaining attention on the world stage. While their development, deployment and perceived superiority over human soldiers are presumed to be inevitable, this book...

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A Review on Robotic Process Automation - The Future of Business Organizations

Ansari, Wasique Ali; Diya, Paritosh; Patil, Sahishnu; … - 2019

Robotic process automation (RPA) is the automation of tasks and routines that are followed by humans, which can be instructed to a machine. As it is a mundane and repetitive task, if the process is gone through thoroughly, and key modules are identified of the specified task, then those modules...

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Monetary-Incentive Competition Between Humans and Robots : Experimental Results

Kshirsagar, Alap; Dreyfuss, Bnaya; Ishai, Guy; Heffetz, Ori - 2019

Gill and Prowse (2012) conduct an experiment where an agent who is loss averse around her endogenous choice-acclimating expectations-based reference point is predicted to decrease effort with her rival’s effort (a “discouragement effect”). We adapt their human-human to a human-robot...

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Of Regulating Healthcare AI and Robots

Terry, Nicolas - 2019

This article argues that advances in healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) will seriously challenge the robustness and appropriateness of our current healthcare regulatory models. Initially healthcare AI will join other technologies such as big data and mobile health apps in highlighting the...

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Optimal Taxation of Robots

Thuemmel, Uwe - 2019

I study the optimal taxation of robots and labor income. In the model, robots substitute for routine labor and complement non-routine labor. I show that while it is optimal to distort robot adoption, robots may be either taxed or subsidized. The robot tax exploits general-equilibrium effects to...

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Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Evolving Nature of Work

Webster, Craig - 2019

the integration of robots into the economy. Then, we turn out attention to the economics of robotics and AI, showing how …

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Tech Teach : Acquisition of Physics-Related Knowledge and Scientific Inquiry Skills Through Educational Robotics

Santos, Joseline; Castro, Lawrence - 2019

of school education. However, limited adoption of educational robotics is addressed from the lack of empirical evidences … demonstrating the effects of robotics activities on curricular goals. The researcher improvised the mixed method in this study to … quantitative processes towards investigation if there are significant differences between the assessment scores of the robotics …

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Which Nations Really Lead in Industrial Robot Adoption?

Atkinson, Robert D. - 2019

Robots are key tools for boosting productivity and living standards. To date, most robot adoption has occurred in manufacturing, where there are robots designed to perform a wide variety of manual tasks more efficiently and consistently than humans. But with continued innovation, robot use is...

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Perceived Appropriateness and Intention to Use Service Robots in Tourism

Ivanov, Stanislav Hristov - 2019

This research investigates the ways in which customers of tourism and hospitality facilities view the appropriateness of robots in tourism-related industries. From a global sample with over 87 countries and territories represented and over 1,000 respondents, the findings illustrate that the most...

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Cloud Robotics Law and Regulation

Fosch Villaronga, Eduard - 2019

systems with cloud-based services, also called “cloud robotics.” The literature on legal and ethical issues in robotics has a … virtual elements in cloud robotics environments. We highlight specific problems and challenges in regulating such complex and … robotics ecosystems involving multiple parties, various physical devices,and various cloud services. These examples illuminate …

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