Postscript: Future Lightnings

Great first set of Lightnings!! Thanks to the delicious cupcakes!! Oh yeah, and to our speakers too: Randy, Saman and Heather.

Desired Future Topics

=Resource Scarcity in the context of large-scale usage of Electronics (Pras)

=Social Robots

=A Survey of currently existing Military Robots (Dey)

=The Singularity

=Mixed Autonomy: Ethics and Liability

=Fukashima Robots

=Robots and the Law

=Asimov's Laws under uncertainty

Speakers to Invite

=Bring in a Tepper Economist

=Duquesne University Philosopher

Related Talks

=Sebastian Thrun giving a video-cast lecture on Tuesday, December 6 about robot futures

=Peter Singer's recent CMU talk

Three claimed topics above will make up our mid-January Lightning!! Stay tuned!

Announcing: Our Inaugural Lighting Talk event!

We will be hosting our first-ever Positronic Lighting talk & discussion series Tuesday, November 29! They start with three short lightning talks, a robot film, then open to a group discussion. Feel free to bring topics or robot news! Tell your friends and loved ones!

DETAILS

Time: 5pm Tuesday, November 29

Location: NSH 3001 @ Carnegie Mellon University's Newell-Simon Hall

The Kick-offs:

- "Dirty, dangerous and dull: Are we really automating jobs that

humans don't want?" -Randy Sargent

- "Asimov's Laws for Roboticists: Universal ethical codes should

exist." -Saman Amraii

- "Milking Cows: Industrial farming and the most common service

robots." -Heather Knight

VIDEO: "Only Son - It's a Boy"

http://vimeo.com/groups/robotfilmfest/videos/24591658

Taking time to smell the roses!

Engineers are great developers, but what is it that our creations enable? What are the most fulfilling potentials we could hold ourselves to? This robot's got the right idea.

Image by Wendi Gratz