CLOVERDALE — Alan Winfield Roads, 55, of rural Cloverdale, died Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, at his home, surrounded by his friends and family, after a courageous battle with cancer. Alan was born Nov. 11, ...

Scientists Alan Winfield, professor of robot ethics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and Marina Jirotka, professor of human-centered computing at Oxford University, believe robots ...

CAN we teach a robot to be good? Fascinated by the idea, roboticist Alan Winfield of Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK built an ethical trap for a robot – and was stunned by the machine’s response ...

What is a robot? -- What robots do now -- Biological robotics -- Humanoid and android robots -- Robot swarms, evolution, and symbiosis -- Robotic futures Robotics is a key technology in the modern ...

“We are trying to, if you like, invent a completely new way of designing robots that doesn’t require humans to actually do the designing,” said Alan Winfield. “We’re developing the machine or robot ...

Imagine standing in an elevator as the doors begin to close and suddenly seeing a couple at the end of the corridor running toward you. Even before they call out, you know from their pace and body ...

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