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  In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published his famous Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure humanity or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. But by 1951, with Cold War tempers running hot, the film The Day the Earth Stood Still took a more straightforward moral standpoint. It features a humanoid alien Klaatu who comes to save the planet’s citizens from themselves, but ends up getting shot for his pains. His robot Gort saves him and they jet off again, but not before delivering the ultimate good cop/bad cop deterrent: embrace peace or we’ll incinerate you. I  (sl)

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• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Uncanny Valley
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Uncanny Valley
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  Uncanny Valley?

  When empathy turns to revulsion

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Good Thing About Robots

  New animated film from ECAL

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  A Dog’s Life

  Robots that were made to be loved

  Text: Claire L. Evans
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Nothing Can Harm Them

  Synthetic bees by Greenpeace

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  The Eye of the Swarm

  Superflux’s Drone Aviary

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Machines of Loving Grace

  The city as a distributed robot & the omnipresent intelligence of data networks

  Text: Sam Jacob
• FOUND

  FOUND

  In our own image

  Law and order in robotics

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  The Bionic Man

  Hugh Herr, head of Biomechatronics at MIT

  Text: Sara Faezypour
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  A Kind Of Magic

  A conversation about losing control over our own technology

  Text: Crystal Bennes
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Cyber Sculptors

  Kram/Weisshaar’s Robochop project

  Text: Rob Wilson
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Otherness of the Machine

  Jan Willmann from ETH Zurich on robotics in architecture

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Tug Bugs

  Microbots with superstrength
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Matter Design's

  Best of commercial robotic fabrication innovation

  Text: Brandon Clifford, Wes McGee
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Forever Alone

  One small step for a robot...

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Katarzyna Krakowiak

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XXVI. Robo-Hunting

  Text: Klaus
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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