If you are a roboethicist, then you probably want to be in the Netherlands this summer, and here is why:
The University of Twente sent out a Call for Papers for a conference on the topic of “Bridging the robotics gap: bringing together ethicists and engineers”. Taking place in Enschede, the Netherlands, where the university is located, the organizers are looking for 500 word abstract submissions by May 15th. The conference itself will be two days long: July 11th – 12th.
One thing that I am really excited about the conference is that …

Every odd year is an exciting year. That’s because one of the largest robotics conferences, ICRA (a.k.a. International Conference on Robotics and Automation), hosts a full-day workshop on roboethics.
I am happy to announce that 2011 is not an exception. The Fourth Workshop on Roboethics will be held in Shanghi, China on May 13, 2011.
Please see below and the following website for more info: Roboethics.org
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Fourth Workshop on Roboethics
May 13, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
Important dates:
• February 28, 2011: Paper submission deadline
• March 7, 2011: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
• March 14, 2011: Camera-Ready Submission Deadline
Organizers:
IEEE …

Anyone interested in talking about roboethics in Taiwan next May?
AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) conference will be covering the topic. If you’re planning to head to Asia next May, you might want to check out their call for papers: http://www.aamas2011.tw/index.html
AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly-respected meetings:  International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The …

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 …