Robotics row

New York school deploys AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots (17 July 2026) A headline for our times, if ever there was one

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him (9 November 2023) Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant

• SFPD authorized to kill suspects using robots in draft policy (2022-11-22)

Neural networks don’t work like the human brain because they ‘learn’ differently (6 June 2022) A neuroscientist explains why it's not so simple to make machines think like us

Ghost Robotics unveils autonomous robot dog armed with assault rifle (15 October 2021) You... realize ED-209 was showing you what not to do, right, tech manufacturers? That was the whole damn point.

• Singapore is testing autonomous robots to catch smokers and other “undesirable social behaviors” (2021-09-28)
• California restaurant turns to sassy robot for extra help as it struggles to hire workers (2021-07-30)
• Joshua Browder's Bot for parking tickets (2016-02-18)

Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System (6 August 2015) What scares me is that none of those researchers seems to know the first thing about bullying. There's no mention of it; no awareness of the issue, or the psychology behind it. Nothing. Didn't they ask anyone with actual knowledge of child behavior? (Via Slashdot).

• Robot army 'to help alleviate future floods' (2014-02-13)

Self-driving cars

• Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test (16 March 2025)
• San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones (2023-07-11)
• Autopilot & Full Self Driving — California DMV Accuses Tesla Of False Advertising (2022-08-07)
• Cruise robotaxis blocked traffic for hours on this San Francisco street (2022-06-30)
• Ai Mid 2021. Self Driving Car Meets Reality. (12 May 2021)
• Tesla Autopilot crash driver 'was playing video game' (26 February 2020)
• Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars (10 April 2019)
• Autonomous cars are not ready for public deployment (15 February 2019)

Facial recognition and profiling

Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon (2025-10-23) But it did work as intended! The system's real purpose is to terrorize black people. The cops' spokesperson inadvertently admitted it.

• IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology (8 June 2020)
• ACLU: Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Linked Athletes To Mugshots (22 October 2019)
• Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased (13 August 2019)

Objective or Biased (11 June 2019) On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications