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We Robot 2013: Getting down to Business

April 8, 2013 – 1:38 pm |

Last year about this time, I had just finished defending her MASc thesis and had flown to Miami for the We Robot 2012 conference, hosted by the University of Miami.
Today, I am at Stanford Law …

Robot Film Festival

June 17, 2012 – 5:01 pm |

Love robots? Love film?
Then you might want to get yourself a ticket to the second of the Robot Film Festival and spend a couple of days in New York city celebrating robot films.
Spearheaded by Heather Knight of …

CFP – Bridging the robotics gap: bringing together ethicists and engineers

April 9, 2011 – 11:30 pm |

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 …

ICRA 2011 – The 4th Workshop on Roboethics

February 15, 2011 – 1:58 pm |

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 …

CFP: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2011

September 16, 2010 – 4:34 pm | 95 Comments | 
CFP: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2011

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 …

Roboethics Call for Papers: TILTing Perspectives 2011

September 6, 2010 – 6:01 pm | 2 Comments | 

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.

CFP: 9th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)

March 4, 2010 – 3:24 am | One Comment | 

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.

CFP: International Conf. on Social Robotics

March 4, 2010 – 3:04 am |

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.

CFP: ECAP2010 – European Conference on Computing and Philosophy

February 4, 2010 – 7:58 pm |

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 …

Are you near Rome? – Cyberethics/Roboethics Conference on Saturday 16th

January 15, 2010 – 1:55 am | 4 Comments | 

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 …