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Intelligent robots part of our future, ready or not

6 November 2024

Richard Medlicott

Wednesday 6 November 2024, 01:30 AM

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

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References

Alok Jha (host). How AI can make robots fit for a human world (podcast – paywalled). The Economist 2024: 12 June. tinyurl.com/yckxsyyf
Alahmari AR, Alrabghi KK, Dighriri IM. An overview of the current state and perspectives of pharmacy robot and medication dispensing technology. Cureus 2022:14(8): e28642. DOI 10.7759/cureus.28642
Wright J. Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care. MIT Technology Review 2023: 9 Jan. tinyurl.com/Tech-review

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