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Surveillance. Online privacy. Robots. Food processing. Wearable computers. To get a sense of what's on the minds of the tech industry's thinkers, leaders and tinkerers, it's a good idea to head to Austin, Texas, rather than Silicon Valley this time of the year.

Perhaps I'm naive when assuming everyone has seen Terminator 2 and kinda more importantly, Terminator 3 - the one where the robots become aware and start to kill the humans.

All, that is, except U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who says violin music and a robot thespian are typical Sunday evening entertainment Protecting privacy was on the minds of almost all the dignitaries assembled in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday night to open this year's Cebit trade show, the theme of which is "datability," or big data with ... (more)

Google executive chairman and former chief executive Eric Schmidt took to the stage at SXSW interactive alongside co-author of 'The Digital Age' Jared Cohen, Google's director of its Ideas think tank, to discuss his views on privacy and the NSA, GCHQ, Russia and robots, reports Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith.

As part of Robohub's focus series on Big Deals , in Robots Podcast #151 interviewer AJung Moon talks with Avner Levin , Chair of the Law and Business Department, Ted Rogers School of Management , Ryerson University , and Director of the Privacy & Cyber Crime Institute .

And Oxford professor Ian Brown is trying to find ways of stopping them from revealing private information which they come across.

BUT THAT'S THE ONLY KIND OF SMOKING ALLOWED INSIDE. THEY HOPE TO OPEN THEIR DOORS A LITTLE LATER THIS YEAR.

Bridging the gap between experiencing and learning is the Baxter Robot by Rethink Robotics.

Drew Munro / dmunro@postindependent.com Sean O'Flinn, director Valley View Hospital's cath lab demonstrates the hospital's CorPath Vascular Robotic System.

Get your geek on at our Teen Tech Week events as librarians introduce teens to technology training and mini-robotics kits that will make ordinary objects extraordinary.

Movie robots often look like people in bulky, bipedal suits. Why aren't more robots built along these lines? It's not just the problem of balance.

Researchers and educators from the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and Marine Extension are creating an education program focused on autonomous underwater vehicles, also known as underwater robots.

Staff Sgt. Shawn Briggs, an explosive ordnance disposal technician, straps on an iRobot 310 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle , used during dismounted operations in Florida on April 18, 2013.

Victoria West High School students James Easton, left, and Corbin Adams discuss robot movement before class March 3 at the University of Houston-Victoria.

MOUNTAIN VIEW In a rare public speech, Google CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference.

Shh! Don't tell anyone! This is what the Air Force's new Long Range Strike Bomber might look like.

You can't beat them, so join them. That was the message Google chairman Eric Schmidt delivered Friday in a session at SXSW in Austin.

In the decades that came after, just about every industry became automated to a greater or lesser extent.

When drummer Jason Barnes lost his lower right arm to electrocution two years ago, his future as a musician didn't look too promising.

With robots becoming increasingly powerful , intelligent and autonomous, a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says it's time to start making sure they know the difference between good and evil.