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The website includes lots of videos of robots in action, images of robots with detailed captions, videos of the author's appearances including a TED conference, a classroom discussion guide, and lots of information about the book including a lengthy excerpt.First rate material. Goes beyond robotics with excellent explanations of the technology. || reliability, integrity, security, policies, people and machines Politics and Government ||
 * **Link** || **Description** || **Links to Other ethical issues/AoI** ||
 * [|Wired for War] || This website accompanies the book of the same title, a must read for ITGS teachers.
 * [|Artificial Intelligence News] || A general link which includes stories on the latest developments in AI ||  ||
 * [|The Rose Project] || Rose is an artificially intelligent being that uses the intelligence of site visitors to build vocabulary, associations, and sentences in order to become smarter. When we launched Rose online, we gave her one word to start with. That word was "love". By using basic feedback from site visitors like you, Rose has built new associations from the foundation of "love" to form a HUGE vocabulary. || humans and machines ||
 * [|Thinking Machine 4 - Play Chess] || Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine. ||  ||
 * __[|City Gets 'Crime Detecting' CCTV]__ || Article about Smart CCTV in Portsmouth. It's a computer programme that has been integrated into the city's existing network of 152 cameras and has been programmed to spot unusual behaviour in places and at times when it's not expected. Plenty of material for discussion. || Privacy, surveillance ||
 * [|Electronic Brain Helps Cut Credit Card Fraud] || Podcast and transcript. Explains how credit card transactions are checked before being authorised in an attempt to reduce fraud. Essentially this is a neural network combined with a huge database of prior transactions. A good example to show students how AI is used in the "real world" every day. || databases ||
 * [|Researchers enable a robot to fold towels] || A good explanation of why robots have difficulty with tasks that are simple for human beings. A 2 minute video illustrates the concepts explained in the article. ||  ||

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 * =CES 07: Honda Asimo Humanoid Robot demo=
 * [|Prosthetic Arm] || Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he’s developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technology to solve problems -- while honoring the human spirit -- has never been more clear. Truly inspiring. ||
 * [|The Great Robot Race] || Driverless vehicles compete in a 130 mile race across the Mojave Desert. Website contains video clips and explanations of how the robots sense their environments. The full video/DVD must be purchased but the website still contains lots of useful material. ||
 * [|Predator Drones] || Shows how the drones work, very well explained, contains interviews with the pilots. Made in 2006 but still very relevant. About 10 minutes. ||

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