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With two words Team Afghanistan the crowd assembled in the stands at DAR Constitution Hall erupted into a deafening roar Sunday as the teen-aged girls made their way onto a sprawling stage,waving their countrys flag and donning head scarves in matching colors. Their triumphant entrance on the stage Sunday at theFIRST Global Robotics Challengemarked the end of a long and uncertain journey to the U.S. As of last week, their dream of traveling to what has been billed as the Olympics of Robotics had been shot down when their visas were denied, despite two grueling trips from their home in Herat to Kabul for interviews with the U.S. State Department.

But after their plight made international headlines,President Trump intervened at the last minute to grant the girls passage to the U.S., and they arrived Saturday.

[Afghan girls team can travel to U.S. for robotics contest after being denied visas twice]

The three-day competition draws teams from 157 countries and some multinational teams representing continents. One group Team Hope is composed of refugees. FIRST has long hosted competitions in the U.S., but this is the first year it is hosting an international competition. The team representing the U.S. is composed of three girls, who marched into the auditorium for the parade of nations to the Woody Guthrie song This Land is Your Land.

[These girls have built robots since they were toddlers. Now theyre competing on a world stage.]

The international nature of the competitioncame with complications. Besides the girls from Afghanistan, the team from Gambia also had issues with their visas, according to the Associated Press, before their applications were also ultimately approved. Because of sanctions, Global FIRST was unable to ship a robotics kit to Iran, where a group of teenagers was awaiting the parts to build a robot.

That might have spelled the end of the teams shot of going to the world championships. But the organization introduced them to a group of teen-aged robotics enthusiasts at Marshall High in Fairfax County, Va. calling themselves Team Gryphon. The team in Iran sketched out blueprints on the computer and sent the designs to their counterparts across the ocean, and then corresponded over Skype.

Sunday, the team flew the Iranian flag at their station next to the flag of Team Gryphon a black flag with a purple silhouette of the gryhpon as a sign of their unlikely partnership. For Mohammadreza Karami, the teams mentor, it was an inspiring example of cooperation.

Its possible to solve all of the worlds problems if we put aside our politics and focus on peace, Karami said.

Kirsten Singer, a 16-year-old rising junior at Marshall High, said she wanted to didnt want the team to be locked out of the competition just because of the sanctions.

Everybody should be able to compete and to learn and to use that experience for other aspects of their life, Singer said.

Staff writer Sharif Hassan contributed to this story.

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After visa delays, Afghan girls robotics team arrives in DC for global competition - Washington Post

By Maia Silber By Maia Silber July 16 at 5:49 PM

Colleen Johnson built her first robot at age 2, sitting on her fathers lap. It was a sumo robot, designed to knock other automatons down. And it played the tune Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

You know, childs play.

Johnsons younger sister, Katie, was not far behind. She soon made her own android, just a tiny little thing that moved. The Johnson sisters, now 16 and 18, have been hooked ever since.

Now the Johnsons, along with their co-captain Sanjna Ravichandar, 17, make up Team USA for the inaugural FIRST Global Robotics Challenge, whose two days of game play take place Monday and Tuesday in Washington.

The three girls have spent the past several months not only building their own robot, but contacting teams from around the world to offer their assistance with everything from technical troubleshooting to dealing with the heat of a Washington summer.

We feel like as the host country, its our responsibility to make it a good experience for everyone, Ravichandar said at a hectic all-team practice session Saturday. She had just offered advice to some members of Team Botswana, whose robot had not arrived at the airport.

The competition, designed to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) around the world, will include a team from Afghanistan, which had initially been denied U.S. visas.

The robot girls

Other children play with dolls and toy cars. The Johnsons grew up tinkering with parts of old sewing machines and lawn mowers, which their parents, both trained as engineers, picked up from scrap yards in their home town of Fairbanks, Alaska.

In the early 2000s, their parents, Tom and Sharon, began working as coaches, judges, and referees for FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Techology), a not-for-profit youth organization that runs several robotics competitions for elementary, middle and high school students. Almost soon as the girls were old enough to compete, they began participating in FIRSTs Lego and tech challenges.

Their team, Schrodingers Hat, formed with four other Fairbanks students, has participated in more than 20 competitions. (Its name comes from Erwin Schrodingers famous thought experiment: The team competes wearing giant top hats decorated with cats eyes). In 2015, the team won the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Inspire Award, the top award in the international competition.

According to the Johnsons, robotics are a surprisingly popular pastime in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Its dark and cold nine months of the year, Katie Johnson says with a shrug.) But even there, the Johnsons are known as the robot girls.

The sisters have taken advantage of their reputation to promote STEM in their community, especially to young girls. As a young woman, just one negative experience can turn you off STEM, Colleen Johnson said. But knowing other women have experienced that, and have risen above it, is so inspiring.

Across the country in Princeton, N.J., Ravichandar was also a member of an all-girls team actually, an all-Girl Scout team, called, fittingly, We Are Girl Scouts (W.A.G.S.). Their trademark? Our branding is excessive amounts of purple, glitter, beads and neon hats, she said. The team has also competed in more than 20 competitions and won several awards.

Ravichandar met Colleen Johnson when both were both recognized on the FIRST Deans List for outreach and leadership. For both girls, it waslike meeting a celebrity: Each had followed the others team on social media. After the Johnsons were tapped to represent the United States at FIRST Global, they asked Ravichandar to join.

I didnt believe it was real, she gushed.

12-hour days

On the Saturday before the competition, the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall is packed with teenagers wearing T-shirts and buttons emblazoned with national flags, carrying complicated mechanical contraptions over their heads. Team USA, crammed in a booth between Team Uganda and Team U.K., was doing some last-minute tinkering after a practice run that morning had revealed some problems with its robots battery.

For the team, this is the culmination of months of designing, building and programming. As part of the inaugural Global Challenge, the competitors learn about challenges to accessing clean water for people around the world. The competition requires each team to build a robot that will sort water particles (represented by blue balls) from contaminant particles (represented by orange balls), depositing the former in a village reservoir and the latter in a laboratory. Afterward, the robot must hang from a bar to avoid a flood.

Working only with materials allotted in their official kits, the teams had to build mechanisms to collect the balls, sort them using a color sensor and deposit them in the correct locations. They also had to design a device to hang the robot during the flood portion of the game. Team USA worked on its design almost every day since March at least three or four hours a day, and up to 12 in the last few weeks before the competition. Through the months-long design and building process, Ravichandar communicated with the Johnsons (who recently moved to Everett, Wash.) via Google HangOut, shared spreadsheets and text messages.

The girls also kept an engineering notebook, documenting their ideas and progress. Ravichandar wrote her entries on loose graphing paper. When the team members finally met in Washington in June, they all wrote in the notebook together for the first time.

Besides design ideas, the notebook also documents the girls online meetings with teams from other countries. I have also continued to talk with members of Team Rwanda, and have helped them with their robot, one entry reads. A member of Team Tanzania began messaging me on Facebook, another reads. The Johnsons also acted as official mentors for Team Colombia.

Just a few minutes before Team USA is up to practice, Ravichandar runs over to her teammates, out of breath, reporting that Team Bahamas has had a technical problem. But I think theyre okay, she adds. And their mechanism is so cool. When she describes it, Katie squeals.

You can only use whats in the box, Ravichandar says, explaining why shes excited. Each of those teams used those pieces to build a completely different robot.

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These girls have built robots since they were toddlers. Now they're competing on a world stage. - Washington Post

A team of Afghan girls arrived at Dulles International Airport to compete in an academic robotics competition in D.C. after U.S. officials agreed to allow them to enter the country despite initially denying them visas. (Reuters)

President Trump's last-minute intervention allowed an all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan to come to the United States.More important, it enabled the high schoolers to achieve what few female Afghans are able to: represent their country on an international stage.

I feel so happy that I cant describe in words, team member Fatemah Qaderyantold The Post at Washington Dulles International Airport Saturday.

We felt so disappointed (when we were denied visa) because our team members had worked very hard for six months, the 14-year-old added.

Trump's involvement drew praise from White House counselorKellyanne Conway, who saidin a tweet Saturday morning that while others talk, the president acts. But critics pointed out that selectively allowing a small group of people to come to the United States, while denying many others, is not deserving of credit.

In response to Conway's tweet, Paul Musgrave, an international relations expert who teaches political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said, Selective enforcement of laws and displays of 'mercy' are monarchical, not democratic, tendencies.

He told The Washington Postthat while Trump did the right thing,making an exception here and there for people who are particularly charismatic and particularly visible is indicative of an administration that takes action because popular opinion, not rational policy, necessitates doing so.

Think about all the other charismatic groups that we haven't had this kind of mobilization about. Conway's tweet is in this vein of the good president saving innocent people from the government. Well, if he cares that much about these young women, what is he doing to make sure that we have a just process in place for all the many thousands of people affected by his other policies? Musgrave said, referring to the Trump administration's travel ban, which places restrictions on people from six predominantly Muslim countries. Afghanistan is not among those countries.

Conway is traveling and is unavailable to comment, her chief of staff said.

The story of the high school girls from the city of Herat in western Afghanistan and their uphill battle in trying to come to the United States first attracted worldwide sympathya few weeks ago.

The Afghan girls' robotic team will be allowed to travel to the United States to participate in an international robotics competition after their visa applications were denied twice. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)

They scrambled for months to build a ball-sorting robot that will compete in theFIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition in Washington. The team was supposed to receive equipment from the United States, but it was held up for months amid terrorism concerns. So the team members improvised and built motorized machines out of household materials,The Post reported.

To be able to come to the United States, theytwice made the dangerous 500-mile journey to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to apply for their visas.

[U.S. denies visas for Afghanistans all-girl robotics team]

But their applications were denied.

The hurdles punctuated by the fact that nearly all teams, including those from countries barred under Trump's travel ban, were allowed to come drew criticism from human rights activists and questions about whether U.S. agencies were pulling back efforts to advocate for young women in Afghanistan,The Post reported.

Today, many Afghan women feel betrayed. The Trump administration is formulating a new Afghanistan strategy, but the talk is all about troop numbers, not school books and certainly not girls, Heather Barr, senior researcher for the Human Rights Watch's women's rights division,wrote last week.

On Wednesday, days before the competition was scheduled to start,Politicobroke the newsof Trump's intervention.The Department of Homeland Security had granted the Afghan team members and their chaperon a parole, which allows them a one-time, temporary entry into the country for humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,The Post reported.

The reason the girls' visas were initially denied is unclear.

The State Department has cited privacy laws in declining to explain the decision. A spokesman told the Associated Press this week that visa applications are adjudicated on a case-by-case basis.

Critics on Twitter pointed to the administration's travel ban, saying it's the reason the team was barred in the first placeand suggesting that the president shouldn't take credit for reversing the consequences of his own policies.

But theban is not the reason the girls' visas were denied. The latest version of the ban affects Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen three of which have robotics teams that weren't blocked from coming to the United States. Another team, from Gambia, Africa, also was previously deniedbut has since been granted visas.

Others defended Trump and questioned why critics weren't as outraged when the African team's visas were denied.

Musgrave said tyingthe travel ban to the Afghan team's difficulty in entering the country is a misplaced criticism and is probably because of confusion over the administration's policies on Muslim countries.

Still, he maintains there's a connection at least indirectly.

Although Afghanistan is not among the restricted countries, the obstacles the team faced in coming to theUnited Statesarereflective of the kind of policy errors you get from the administration that imposes the travel ban,Musgravesaid. Praising the president for intervening is akin to snatching victory from the jaws of your defeat,he added.

[Afghan girls team can travel to U.S. for robotics contest after being denied visas twice]

It wasn't a surprise to anybody that a team like this one coming from a country like Afghanistan would be caught up in this, Musgrave said, adding later:You don't get credit for cleaning this up when you foster this kind of atmosphere.

Had the girls not been allowed to come to the United States, they would've had to participate in the competition via Skype.

They landed at Washington Dulles International Airport early Saturday. The three-day robotics competition, which involves participants from nearly 160 countries, starts Sunday.

Seventeen years ago, this would not have been possible at all. They represent our aspirations and resilience despite having been brought up in perpetual conflict. These girls will be proving to the world and the nation that nothing will prevent us from being an equal and active member of the international community,Afghan Ambassador Hamdullah Mohib told the AP after the girls arrived.

Sharif Hassan, Amanda Erickson, and Derek Hawkins contributed to this report.

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Conway praises Trump for getting all-girl Afghan robotics team to United States. Critics disagree. - Washington Post

The all-girls robotics team from Afghanistanhas arrivedin Washington, D.C.

The team is competing in the FIRST Global Challenge arobotics competitionfor young people across the world. One team from every country is invited to the event.

But it initially looked like the team from Afghanistan wouldn't be able to attend. The six girls were denied visa entryat least two timesby the U.S. State Department.

Officials,citing privacy laws, didn't give details about why the visas were denied.

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President Donald Trump reportedly intervened and urged U.S. officials to let the girls into the country for the competition. Politico reports the team was given parole entry for 10 days but weren't granted visas.

The team was met by Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S. and other supporters when they arrived in D.C. The competition begins July 16.

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July 14, 2017

COURTESY PHOTO Malden High Robotics Club advisor Chris Bazzinotti and Malden students are shown at the International Botball Tournament held this past week in Norman, Okla.

MALDEN They fell short in the end, but the citys high school robotics team marched over global competitors during this weeks International Botball Tournament.

They had already pushed the envelope by winning the schools first New England Regional Botball Championship. Little did they know they would not only knock off the top-seeded team in the world and then advance to the Elite Eight in the world before bowing to a former, recent World Champion.

What a week in Norman, Okla., for the students from Malden.

It was a great showing and despite the intensity, it was a lot of fun and very satisfying for our students, said Chris Bazzinotti, a Malden High technology teacher who serves as advisor to the Robotics Team.

When the students won the New England title in May, they immediately began a fundraising drive which raised nearly $8,000 to fund the trip to the Midwest to participate in the International Botball Championship, where teams from around the world battled for the world crown in a competition hosted by the Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER).

According to the Botball Educational Robotics Program Botball competitions revolve around using student-made robots to complete a series of tasks, such as collecting objects and moving them to another location or recognizing certain color objects and sorting them, within a set time limit of two minutes. Sensors and cameras give input to the robots, which help to identify objects.

Between competitions, participants program the robots using an Integrated Development Environment.

The Malden High Robotics team was seeded 33rd in the 64-team competition and came out of the gate with a win over a team from a Peoples Republic of China middle school affiliated with Qingdao University. The Chinese team came in as the 32nd seed.

Up next for Malden was the tall task of facing off against the number one-seeded team in the competition, former two-time world champion Los Altos (Calif.) Community School.

They were aware of the competition, but our students were in there with confidence, Bazzinotti said.

Malden High ended up with a huge win when the top-seeded Los Altos team and Malden advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, this time against Talenthaus from Germany. Malden again prevailed and moved on to the fabled Elite Eight where they faced off against the Dead Robots Society team of northern Virginia.

Maldens luck finally ran out as the Dead Robots Society squad prevailed and moved into the Final Four. The local students could take some consolation knowing the team that knocked them out of the International Tournament, Dead Robots Society, advanced all the way to the final and were crowned World Champions for the first time since 2013.

All in all, quite a summer feat with an international flair for some students from Malden out in the Midwest.

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Seventeen boys recently participated in Surry Community Colleges Robotics Camp. The campers, pictured from left are, front row, Kyler Terry of Pilot Mountain, KJ Haynie of Pilot Mountain, Carter Utt of Pilot Mountain, Kaden Haynie of Pilot Mountain, Benjamin Hiatt of Ararat, Virginia, Benjamin Delacruz of Cana, Virginia, Andrew Johnson of Dobson, Jack Baker of Westfield, Alex Jenkins of Dobson; back row, Hunter Pavlansky of Yadkinville, Nathan Dowell of Cana, Shelton Rook of White Plains, Daniel Durham of Elkin, Javontaa Cox of Asheville, Chandler Pharr of Mount Airy, Micah Russell of Lowgap, and Hunter Terrell of Mount Airy.

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These seven girls recently participated in Surry Community Colleges Robotics Camp. The campers, pictured from left. front row, are Cadence Wilkins of Pilot Mountain, Anna Dowell and Jessi Delacruz of Cana, Virginia. In back are Isabella Martin of Stuart, Virginia, Lisbeidy Sanchez of Boonville, Abby Moser of Mount Airy, and Payton Howell of Boonville.

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DOBSON Russell Joness classroom was full June 27 through 30. Thats not uncommon for Surry Community Colleges lead electronics engineering instructor, but this time the students in Joness class were much younger than those he usually teaches.

Thats because he was working with local youths from elementary and middle schools as part of a summer program.

Jones excitedly welcomed children ages 10 through 15 with an interest in robotics and electronics engineering to Surrys Robotics Camp. The camp, broken into one section for girls and one for boys, gave participants an opportunity to work with some of the equipment that Surrys electronics engineering students learn on every day.

Not only did children leave the camp with a robot they built on their own, but they also left with a camp T-shirt, engineering skills, and memories.

The seven female campers were Abby Moser of Mount Airy; Lisbeidy Sanchez of Boonville; Cadence Wilkins of Pilot Mountain; Jessi Delacruz and Anna Dowell, both of Cana, Virginia; Payton Howell of Boonville, and Isabella Martin of Stuart, Virginia.

The 17 male campers were Hunter Terrell and Chandler Pharr of Mount Airy; Kyler Terry, Carter Utt, Kaden Haynie and K.J. Haynie, all of Pilot Mountain; Benjamin Hiatt of Ararat, Virginia; Alex Jenkins and Andrew Johnson of Dobson, Hunter Pavlanksy of Yadkinville; Jack Baker of Westfield; Javontaa Cox of Asheville; Benjamin Delacruz and Nathan Dowell of Cana, Virginia; Daniel Durham of Elkin; Shelton Rook of White Plains; Micah Russell of Lowgap;

Surry is also hosting an Art Camp, Volleyball Camp, and an Old Time and Traditional Music Camp this month. To learn more about SCCs camp offerings, visit http://www.surry.edu or contact Student and Community Engagement Coordinator Kasey Martin at (336) 386-3468 or [emailprotected] To view the photos from Robotics Camp, visit Surrys Electronics Engineering Facebook page @surryelectronics.

Seventeen boys recently participated in Surry Community Colleges Robotics Camp. The campers, pictured from left are, front row, Kyler Terry of Pilot Mountain, KJ Haynie of Pilot Mountain, Carter Utt of Pilot Mountain, Kaden Haynie of Pilot Mountain, Benjamin Hiatt of Ararat, Virginia, Benjamin Delacruz of Cana, Virginia, Andrew Johnson of Dobson, Jack Baker of Westfield, Alex Jenkins of Dobson; back row, Hunter Pavlansky of Yadkinville, Nathan Dowell of Cana, Shelton Rook of White Plains, Daniel Durham of Elkin, Javontaa Cox of Asheville, Chandler Pharr of Mount Airy, Micah Russell of Lowgap, and Hunter Terrell of Mount Airy.

http://mtairynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_Robotics-Camp2.jpgSeventeen boys recently participated in Surry Community Colleges Robotics Camp. The campers, pictured from left are, front row, Kyler Terry of Pilot Mountain, KJ Haynie of Pilot Mountain, Carter Utt of Pilot Mountain, Kaden Haynie of Pilot Mountain, Benjamin Hiatt of Ararat, Virginia, Benjamin Delacruz of Cana, Virginia, Andrew Johnson of Dobson, Jack Baker of Westfield, Alex Jenkins of Dobson; back row, Hunter Pavlansky of Yadkinville, Nathan Dowell of Cana, Shelton Rook of White Plains, Daniel Durham of Elkin, Javontaa Cox of Asheville, Chandler Pharr of Mount Airy, Micah Russell of Lowgap, and Hunter Terrell of Mount Airy. Submitted photo | Surry Community College

These seven girls recently participated in Surry Community Colleges Robotics Camp. The campers, pictured from left. front row, are Cadence Wilkins of Pilot Mountain, Anna Dowell and Jessi Delacruz of Cana, Virginia. In back are Isabella Martin of Stuart, Virginia, Lisbeidy Sanchez of Boonville, Abby Moser of Mount Airy, and Payton Howell of Boonville.

http://mtairynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_RoboticsCamp1.jpgThese seven girls recently participated in Surry Community Colleges Robotics Camp. The campers, pictured from left. front row, are Cadence Wilkins of Pilot Mountain, Anna Dowell and Jessi Delacruz of Cana, Virginia. In back are Isabella Martin of Stuart, Virginia, Lisbeidy Sanchez of Boonville, Abby Moser of Mount Airy, and Payton Howell of Boonville. Submitted photo | Surry Community College

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Rahmat Gul, Associated Press Members of a female robotics team arrive from Herat province to receive visas from the U.S. embassy, at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 13, 2017.

KABUL, Afghanistan The third time's the charm for Afghanistan's all girl robotics team, who will be allowed entry into the U.S. to compete in a competition after President Donald Trump personally intervened to reverse a decision twice denying them enter into the country.

The six girls will now be able to participate next week against entrants from 157 countries. The Afghan girls have devised a ball-sorting robot, which has the ability to recognize orange and blue colors, and can move objects to put them in their correct places.

"I am very happy. This is such an important trip for us," said 15-year-old team member Lida Azizi, who was excited at the prospect of being able to compete.

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ByTyler Adkisson July 13, 2017

Imagine sitting in a self-driving car that's about tocrash into a crowd. The car has to choose between hitting everyone or running off the road, putting your life at risk. So how does it make that decision?

For simple bots, Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" might help. But, for more complex machines, researchers aren't so sure the 75-year-old set of rules will work.

According to Asimov's laws, robots can't injure humans or allow them to be harmed; they have to obey orders humans give them; and they must protect themselves. But there's a caveat. If the laws conflict, the earlier law takes precedent.

Single-function robots something with a straightforward job, like a Roomba could in theory follow those laws. But with some of the robots engineers are working on, like the U.S. military'srobot army, it gets complicated.

Robots may not function properly even if they're built to follow the laws. In one experiment, for example, researchers programmed a robot to save another bot if it got too close to a "danger zone."

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Saving one robot was easy, but when two were in danger, the rescue bot got confused. In about 40 percent of trials, it couldn't decide which to save and did nothing.

So while Asimov's laws might help retain some order between humans and robots, it doesn't seem like our futurewill line upwith hismostly subservientrobots at least for now.

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Do Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics Hold Up 75 Years Later? (VIDEO) - Newsy

Imagine sitting in a self-driving car that's about tocrash into a crowd. The car has to choose between hitting everyone or running off the road, putting your life at risk. So how does it make that decision?

For simple bots, Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" might help. But, for more complex machines, researchers aren't so sure the 75-year-old set of rules will work.

According to Asimov's laws, robots can't injure humans or allow them to be harmed; they have to obey orders humans give them; and they must protect themselves. But there's a caveat. If the laws conflict, the earlier law takes precedent.

Single-function robots something with a straightforward job, like a Roomba could in theory follow those laws. But with some of the robots engineers are working on, like the U.S. military'srobot army, it gets complicated.

Robots may not function properly even if they're built to follow the laws. In one experiment, for example, researchers programmed a robot to save another bot if it got too close to a "danger zone."

SEE MORE: This Robotic Exoskeleton Helps You Stay On Your Feet

Saving one robot was easy, but when two were in danger, the rescue bot got confused. In about 40 percent of trials, it couldn't decide which to save and did nothing.

So while Asimov's laws might help retain some order between humans and robots, it doesn't seem like our futurewill line upwith hismostly subservientrobots at least for now.

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