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Ethical dilemmas facing Japanese academics

Geoff Riley

4th March 2016

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This short video from the Financial Times highlights the remarkable potential of ultra fast robotic hands that can beat literally anyone at rock, paper scissors! But the dramatic progress in robotic technology raises a long standing issue, namely that should Japanese academics for seventy years have not been able exploit such technology to build products with military associations. Can this last much longer?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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