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Topic: Robot

AI is more likely to cause a labour shortage. Here’s why

Technology has always made labour more valuable because it allows workers to become more productive.

No more ‘babying’ robots. Columbia University researchers teach them to watch & learn

Published in Nature Machine Intelligence, the study details how the team developed an autonomous robotic arm capable of creating its own simulation by observing its movement via a camera.

Robots are being used for remote care of patients. They are transforming healthcare

A Boston-based start-up claims to have completed the first fully robotic dental procedure using fully automated dental technologies, including AI analysis of data.

A robot for a judge? Why installing AI in court is a bad idea

The law is supposed to be applied impartially and objectively, 'without fear or favour'. Some say, what better way to achieve this than to use a computer programme?

In a first, Android robot EveR 6 takes orchestra conductor’s podium in Seoul

The two-armed robot, designed by Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, made its debut at the National Theater of Korea, leading musicians in the country’s national orchestra.

Don’t obsess over ‘human attributes’ of ChatGPT, Bard. AI has no consciousness

AI models are designed – by people – to interact with us as though they are human, and we’re designed – by biological evolution – to interact with them likewise.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.