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Dr. Robot, I presume? Your appendix may be removed by motor-driven, scalpel-wielding mechanical hands one day. Robots are debuting in the medical field\u2026 as well as on battlefields. And they\u2019re increasingly making important decisions \u2013 on their own. But can we teach robots right from wrong? Find out why the onslaught of silicon intelligence has prompted a new field of robo-ethics.\nPlus, robo-geologists: NASA\u2019s vision for autonomous robots in space.\nGuests:\n\n\nP.W. Singer - Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century\n\n\n\nWendell Wallach - Chair of a technology and ethics working group for Yale University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and the co-author of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong\n\n\n\nPablo Garcia - \u2013 Principal engineer working on medical robotics at SRI International, Menlo Park, California\n\n\nRobert Anderson - Planetary geologist, NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\n\n\n\nRobyn Asimov - Daughter of author Isaac Asimov\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices