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The UN’s Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has established a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), a move which has been applauded by experts around the globe. However, an open letter has been penned to the group in the Future of Life Institute, warning about the dangers that artificial intelligence (AI) might pose.

A drone collided with a US Army helicopter in September of this year. Last Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the operator of the drone was at fault.

In May this year, the appeals court shouted down the FAA’s 2015 ruling that owners of small UAVs were required to submit their names to a database and register their devices. The FAA had even begun returning the $5 registration fees to drone owners, when President Trump signed a bill reinstating the old rule.

In San Francisco, city supervisors have approved legislation that will require delivery robots to have a permit. This comes after an earlier attempt in the year to outright ban them from the streets of the city.

Cutting edge SMEs Massive Analytic and Citi Logik have agreed to jointly develop the next generation in advanced artificial intelligence technologies following their extensive collaboration in late 2015.

A five-track black metal album, titled, “Coditany of Timeness” has just been produced. The difference with this new piece of music is that it was created by an artificial intelligence.

The UK government is planning legislation that may result in British drone users being obligated to take safety awareness tests.

Japan is the world´s predominant industrial robot manufacturer: The production capacity of the Japanese suppliers has reached 153,000 units in 2016 – the highest level ever recorded. Today, Japan´s manufacturers deliver 52 percent of the global supply. These are results published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) ahead of the International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo - November 29th - December 2nd 2017.

DJI is aware of a bulletin about DJI issued in August by an agent in the Los Angeles office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The bulletin is based on clearly false and misleading claims from an unidentified source. Through the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, DJI provided ICE a detailed rebuttal of the report, explaining why the data behind its conclusions is deeply flawed.

Birmingham City Council (BCC) is delivering improved service to its 1.1 million citizens by using Eptica’s artificial intelligence-powered customer experience platform to respond consistently to the over 2.19 million emails and phone calls it handles every year.

A bad first day on the job. Last week, a driverless bus was making its debut on the streets of Las Vegas when it was involved in a collision with another vehicle, just two hours into the trial. It has been determined that the self-driving vehicle was not to blame.

Thoughtonomy announced today that Ben Case has joined the company as Director of Solutions based in Austin, TX, helping to accelerate the growth and ongoing development of the Intelligent Automation platform, and the momentum of the business in the US market and globally.

A suite of tools has been launched that will help landlords, tenants, owners and property entrepreneurs create legal documents without the need to consult costly human lawyers.

On Friday 27th October, Ian Dodd, UK Director of Premonition, announced the results of CaseCrunch’s  week-long competition to directly pit lawyers against artificial intelligence. With an accuracy of 86.6%, compared to the lawyers’ accuracy of 62.3%, CaseCrunch emerged victorious.   

Sophia Robot, an advanced lifelike humanoid robot, speaks October 25 at a panel on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, shortly before being declared a citizen of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. Sophia was built by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics Ltd., which says its humanlike robots have remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics, and interactivity.

The news network has received a waiver from Part 107, that is the first of its kind, which will allow it to fly a UAV over people. It is the first time that real-world UAV operations will be allowed to take place above people.

LexisNexis UK, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced that its latest Bellwether Report, The Race to Evolve, reveals active use of legal processes, tools and technologies are identified as the second highest driver of efficiency in small and midsize firms. Yet 81% of these firms spend less than 10% of their turnover on legal tools, and 58% of firms are spending less than 5%.

Billy Bot is one step closer to upturning legal traditions by digitising the barristers chambers. The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based junior clerk robot, a project spearheaded by Clerksroom, can now be connected to barristers chambers using MLC chambers management software via a bespoke API built by Advanced.

A partnership has been formed between Flirtey, leading drone delivery service, and REMSA, a community-integrated medical services provider, to launch the USA’s first automated external defibrillator (AED) drone delivery service.

Last week, the Chinese drone manufacturer released a new version of its “Local Data Mode”, an update on last month’s release. It promises to stop internet traffic to and from its DJI Pilot app, in order to provide enhanced data privacy assurances for sensitive government and enterprise customers.