What happens when good robots go ‘bad’?

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Gadgets  Thu, 11/05/2009 - 07:53

Robots are "little computers and in some cases, little mobile computers with webcams," says Tamara Denning, lead author of a study about potential robot dangers when control of the bots falls into the wrong hands.Household robots could be a means for spying, vandalism  and psychological attacks, according to a study presented at the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing.




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