INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2010
Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ijt
Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Otttawa, Canada
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
MISSION OF IJT:
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT). The mission of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) is to evolve technological relationships of humans with a focus on ethical implications for human life, social norms and values, education, work, politics, law, and ecological impact. This journal provides cutting-edge analysis …

I’m going to switch gears today and talk about industrial automation.
Last December, Rockwell Automation – one of the leading companies in industrial automation – released a white paper entitled “International Safety Standards Keep Pace with Advances in Robotic Technology and Applications”. This paper talks about the current robotics safety standard (ISO 10218-1 and ANSI/RIA R15.06), and the new standard (part 2 of ISO 10218, or ISO 10218-2) being drafted for release in 2011.
With a brief overview of history of robots, the paper talks about how ANSI/RIA R.15.06 adopted in 1999 …

Another Call for Papers that might be of interest to you!
This CFP was brought to my attention by Robert Richards (@richards1000), who is runs a Legal Informatics Blog covering scholarly and professional commentary on legal info systems and communication. (Thank you Robert!)
This time, it’s for the European Conference on Computing and Philosophy.
This interdisciplinary conference covers a wide variety of issues across the spectrum of philosophy and computers, which includes robotics and of course roboethics:
The conference is interdisciplinary: we invite papers from philosophy, computer science, robotics, engineering sciences, social sciences and related …

About a week ago from today was the 31st anniversary of the first ever recorded death by a robot.  Although it was an industrial accident, Wired asked Ronald Arkin for comments on the incident. It is also interesting how the author of the article uses the phrase ‘human spirit’ to describe Arkin’s current work in robotics.
Arkin is concerned more about the human spirit’s reaction to interacting with robots, especially as one goal of robotics is to create a personal companion to fulfill our daily needs, like the robot Rosie from The Jetsons.

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Brought to my attention today from Dr. Veruggio’s facebook post is Honda’s short film on the development of ASIMO (embedded below).
The theme around the short 8 minute film is how robots are making a positive impact in human society, and how robots like ASIMO is helping us understand humans.
The Roboethics community’s beloved blogger Wendell Wallach(http://moralmachines.blogspot.com/) is featured in the documentary.