ABSTRACT
Among the umpteen things robots struggle to do are climb stairs and show empathy. CoBot, developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, deals with the stairs issue by waiting by the lift and begging passers-by to press the button for the floor it needs. Media outlets are using algorithmic software to produce stories and drones to capture eyewitness footage. Data is fed in, the algorithm adds structure and an acceptable story is produced. Millions upon millions of events happening every single day are never reported because the small target audience means the cost versus benefit to the news industry just is not worthwhile. Until computer software started writing individual match reports, with a bit of input from the mums and dads watching the match. Depending on what the system saw as true in the world, it would make decisions about how it would structure the narrative.
