UCLA Children's Hfchildrospital implements new AI robot to improve mental health during treatment July 24, 2020 https://www.zdnet.com/article/ucla-...ot-to-improve-mental-health-during-treatment/
Robots are getting personal during the pandemic July 30, 2020 https://www.marketplace.org/shows/m...s-hospitals-cleaning-artificial-intelligence/
Pepper the robot can now detect if you're wearing a mask Augsut 4, 2020 https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/83573/pepper-the-robot-can-now-detect-if-youre-wearing-a-mask
Hyderabad-based start-up builds robotic disinfectant to fight Covid-19 December 27, 2020 https://www.livemint.com/technology...fectant-to-fight-covid-19-11609068019869.html
Samsung's new robots at CES 2021 help around the house and act as your assistant January 11, 2021 https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-...p-around-the-house-and-act-as-your-assistant/
"N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash The Police Department will return the device earlier than planned after critics seized on it as a dystopian example of overly aggressive policing... ...the machine, which the police named Digidog, became a source of heated debate. After it was seen being deployed as part of the response to a home invasion in the Bronx in February, critics likened it to a dystopian surveillance drone. And when officers used it at a public housing building in Manhattan this month, a backlash erupted again, with some people describing the device as emblematic of how overly aggressive the police can be when dealing with poor communities. Now, the robotic dog’s days in New York have quietly been cut short..." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/nypd-robot-dog-backlash.html Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4hQ87u6S40
"Autonomous Weeder robot uses lasers to take out 100,000 plants an hour... Startup Carbon Robotics has wheeled out an autonomous machine that has these pesky plants in its cross hairs, using a combination of computer vision and high-powered lasers to comb fields and take out thousands of weeds an hour..." https://newatlas.com/robotics/autonomous-weeder-robot-uses-lasers/
Teaching robots to socialize November 5, 2021 https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/teaching-robots-to-socialize/
"‘This, Of Course, Is Bad,’ Moscow Chess Federation Admits After Robot Attacks 7-Year-Old Boy During Tournament, Breaking His Finger In a failure of Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, a chess tournament took an apocalyptic turn when a robot programmed to play the game attacked its 7-year-old opponent, grabbing the boy’s hand and fracturing his finger before he could be freed..." https://www.mediaite.com/weird/this...ld-boy-during-tournament-breaking-his-finger/
