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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Thirty-one years ago the first recorded instance of a robot killing a human being happened at a Ford assembly plant in Flint, Mich. That death was ruled an industrial accident, but ethical questions surrounding human-robot interaction continue to this day and are likely to become more urgent, says Ron Arkin, Regents' Professor and director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory in Interactive Computing.
