An exciting new conference covering roboethics issues: TILT Perspectives 2011.
“The Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)” Submission of abstract is due October 15th 2010. Notification of acceptance and invitation to write a full paper is November 1st 2010. Conference itself will take place 11th and 12th of April 2011 Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

ICDL is the premiere venue for interdisciplinary research that blends
the boundaries between robotics, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. The 9th International Conference on Development and Learning will be held on August 18-21, 2010.

Upcoming conference on social robotics: The International Conference on Social Robotics is a conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress of their forefront research and findings in social robotics, as well as interactions with human beings and integration into our society.

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 …

Are you somewhere near Rome this weekend at all?
If you are, then please don’t miss your opportunity to visit the fabulous city of Rome and attend roboethics conference titled “Cyberethics: Ethics in the Age of Technology“.
The conference will be held this Saturday January 16th 2010, and will cover the following program:
• Gianmarco Veruggio – “Introduction to the Round Table”
• Terrell W. Bynum –  ”Ethics and the Information Revolution”
• Gianmarco Veruggio – “Roboethics: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Robotics”
• James H. Moor “The Coming Computer Enhancement of Humans”
• Giuseppe O. …

I have a very exciting news for all the roboethics researchers around the world.
A call for papers on a special issue on roboethics have just been released from IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine(RAM)! Yes, the RAM is running a special issue on roboethics!!
Deadline for submission has been set to September 1st, 2010 (so that’s a little less than a year from now).
Guest editors for this special issue are Gianmarco Veruggio, Mike Van der Loos, and Jorge Solis.
All three of them are very approachable and active figures in the field of roboethics …

Currently there’s a roboethics related conference called ‘ICT: that makes the difference‘ being held in Brussels, Belgium.
Dr. Gianmarco Veruggio is the keynote lecturer for tomorrow’s (Tuesday Nov. 23rd 2009) session at the conference titled “Robotics and convergence of the real and the virtual“. His lecture is called “Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics”.

I wish I was there to listen to some of the talks, but sadly I’ll have to wait until papers/presentations become available on the web.
Presenters for the session include Atta Badii and Daniel Thiemert from the University of …

Apparently, China is planning to hold a Humanoid Olympics in 2010 (June 2010 tentative).
Details can be found at the BBC website here.
What’s interesting here is that the robots that will be allowed to participate at the Humanoid Olympics are limited to “android robots designed in human forms, with two legs and two arms”. The reason being “the idea of the competition was to drive innovation and produce robots that are more flexible and helpful.”
There’s lots of robotics competitions out there, but it will be interesting to find out how the Humanoid …

Call for Papers: International Journal of Technoethics (IJT)
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2009
Mission Statment of 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 of technological innovations, research, developments policies, theories, and methodologies related to ethical aspects of technology in society. IJT publishes empirical research, theoretical studies, innovative methodologies, practical applications, case studies, and book reviews. IJT encourages submissions …

3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships will be held June 23~24th 2010.
The conference will be covering topics in roboethics and much more!

robot emotions
robot personalities
gender approaches
affective approaches
psychological approaches
sociological approaches
roboethics
philosophical approaches
case studies

More information about their call for papers (due March 2nd 2010), and other conference related information can be found here: http://hrpr.liacs.nl/