In Depth: Drones, Phones, and Robotic Friends-Where Is Emergent Technology Taking Us?
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As the landscape of high tech is increasingly modernized through applications of robotics from operating theaters to rescue missions, smarter phones that manage our lives, and flying technologies that put cameras (and weapons) in the air (if not everywhere) how will the balance of law, ethics, and relationships between humans and machines change us? Speakers: Mary "Missy" Cummings, Ryan Calo, Ken Goldberg, David Kirkpatrick, Alexander Reben
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