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Intelligent robots part of our future, ready or not
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Intelligent robots part of our future, ready or not
Friday 15 November 2024, 02:48 PM

Integrating AI with robots will have a profound impact on jobs and the economy [Image: Craig Sybert on Unsplash]
Richard Medlicott looks at the state of play with robotics in healthcare and beyond, and whether they have performed as expected
Primum non nocere, first do no harm. Always a particularly useless ethical pillar. How would we do our job? Every potential side effect scaring us awa
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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- Wright J. Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care. MIT Technology Review 2023: 9 Jan. tinyurl.com/Tech-review