Robotics

Overview: Follow the below links for additional resources on Robotic Crimes. These resources are available both on Futurecrimes.com as well as on select external sites. The following links provide an excellent resource guide and foundation on the latest Future Crimes trends.

Latest Articles on Robotics

• Police Drone "Air Robot" Leads to Arrest in UK
• Hacked Battlefield Robots?
• Police-Robot Shot in the Line of Duty
• Armed Gunman Surrenders to Police Robot
• Armed Robots: Coming soon to a gang member/criminal near you…

External Resources:

• Documents
  • A Robot In Every Home by Bill Gates. Published in Scientific American Magazine.
• Newslinks
  • Bangkok Robot Security Guard by Torrey Hoffman. A Thai attempt in year 2000 to create an armed robot police guard.  The robot was provided a pistol, which could be activated remotely over the internet if the robot detected via heat or camera an intruder.
  • Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio by Sally Adee, Discovery News.
  • Home Robots May be the Next Target for Hackers by Kristina Grifantini, MIT Technology Rewview.
  • Robot Warrior Ethical Guide in the Works by Discovery News.
• Organizations
  • Machine Ethics is concerned with the behavior of machines towards human users and other machines.
  • Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) promotes worldwide advancement of unmanned vehicle systems.
  • International Committee for Robot Arms Control (IRCAC) is concerned about the pressing dangers that military robots pose to peace and international security and to civilians in war.
• Educational
  • Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen.
• Law Enforcement
  • The Coming Robot Crime Wave by Noel Sharkey, Marc Goodman, and Nick Ross. Published by the IEEE Computer Society.
• Miscellaneous
  • Archive Gallery: Vintage Robots is a whimsical retrospective from Popular Science Magazine on vintage robots throughout the 20th century.
  • Cellbots. Using mobile phones to control robots.
  • Blog: Robotics and the Law. Chronicling robotics programming at the Stanford Law School.