I came across this fabulous slide show on the Ethical Status of Artificial Agents. It gives a good overview of common terms found in technoethics that are pertinent to the field of roboethics. This is apparently an extended version of a talk given as part of ETHICBOTS project from 2006.
The Ethical Status of Artificial Agents – With and Without …

I stumbled upon what seems to be the latest assessment of IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Roboethics (the document is not dated).
Link to Document Here
This document would be handy to you if you want a concise summary on what has been done so far – and where to dig up more academic papers.
So far (within the last 3-4 years) there has been three workshops on Roboethics at ICRA:
• ICRA 2005, Workshop on Roboethics, Barcelona, Spain, April 18th, 2005
• ICRA 2007, Workshop on Roboethics, Rome, Italy, 14 April 2007
• ICRA 2009, Workshop …

Web presence of Roboethics has definitely been on the rise this year, and I am thrilled to introduce you to one of them:
University of Twende – Roboethics Page
University of Twende hosted a conference on Society for Philosophy and Technology earlier this year (July 7-10, 2009), and this event has been advertised through the www.roboethics.org website despite the web’s under-construction status.
I’ve recently discovered their roboethics page, and I think you’ll find their ‘Literature’ section especially useful. They approach roboethics as subset of philosophy, and have a listing of foundational literatures in …

During my flight to British Columbia to visit UBC’s robotics lab, I met a PhD student from Queen’s University. As an enthusiast of the Roboethics field, I couldn’t help but bring up the topic.
After listening to various Roboethics issues, she was most curious about the use of autonomous machines in military settings. As a mathematician who is probably fond of thinking about extreme cases and theoretical scenarios, she asked me one of the most interesting questions I have ever encountered.
She asked: ‘So if we had wars where robots were …