{"id":57581,"date":"2017-05-21T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-robot-doesnt-have-to-shoot-back-rodney-brooks-says-of-machines-in-the-military"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:38","slug":"a-robot-doesnt-have-to-shoot-back-rodney-brooks-says-of-machines-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-robot-doesnt-have-to-shoot-back-rodney-brooks-says-of-machines-in-the-military","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A robot doesn\u2019t have to shoot back,\u2019 Rodney Brooks says of machines in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-doesnt-have-to-shoot-back-rodney-brooks-says-of-machines-in-the-military.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/07\/rethink-robotics-makes-its-workplace-bots-easier-to-train-and-redeploy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rethink Robotics<\/a> co-founder and CTO, former CSAIL director and all-around robot luminary Rodney Brooks joined the Disrupt New York stage this afternoon to tackle some complex questions, ranging from robots place in the living room to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has a fair bit of experience in both categories, as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/08\/colin-angle-interview\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cofounder of iRobot<\/a>, whose product offerings have ranging from vacuuming to bomb diffusion. And while his current company deals more in the realm of factory automation, a number of these ethical issues still clearly weigh heavily on the Australian roboticist.<\/p>\n<p>It was a question about whether robots should be considered unfit for any human tasks that really caused Brooks to ponder their place in the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/05\/17\/a-robot-doesnt-have-to-shoot-back-rodney-brooks-says-of-machines-in-the-military\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/05\/17\/a-robot-doesnt-have-to-sho...-military\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rethink Robotics co-founder and CTO, former CSAIL director and all-around robot luminary Rodney Brooks joined the Disrupt New York stage this afternoon to tackle some complex questions, ranging from robots place in the living room to the battlefield. Brooks has a fair bit of experience in both categories, as a cofounder of iRobot, whose product [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57678,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions\/57678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}