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17/09/2015 GMT

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Robots building air planes, robot ethics, clothes shopping with a robot

Robots building airplanes; robot ethics; clothes shopping with a robot.

Simon Jack reports from Seattle on robots at work. From the Boeing factory where robots make planes to a clothes shop where a robot helps him buy a new pair of jeans. Plus Ryan Calo, professor of law at the University of Washington, grapples with the question of who to blame when robots go wrong, and whether there is such a thing as robot rights.

(Photo:Prototype robot by Hitachi. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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