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N. KY Hospital Gets Gyno-bots. Really.

July 24, 2009 – 11:38 am

It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are … receiving better care! St. Elizabeth Healthcare announced Wednesday that it has purchased the Intuitive Surgical da Vinci S Surgical System for minimally invasive surgical procedures … [...]

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Killer Robots With A Conscience

May 19, 2009 – 11:15 am

In what can only turn out to be another step toward future enslavement at the hands of Intel-powered overlords, here’s this: Ronald Arkin, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, is in the first stages of developing an “ethical governor,” a package of software and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire. [...]

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