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		<title>Roboethics Call for Papers: TILTing Perspectives 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/09/tilting_perspectives_2011cfp/</link>
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		<title>The Empathic Civilisation and Roboethics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am becoming quite fond of RSA animations, and they are becoming more of my idea tinkering entertainment sources during dinner. If any of the roboethicists out there are a fan of either TED videos or RSA animations, please do watch the talk by Jeremy Rifkin.
Starting with the story of mirror neuron discovery, Jeremy Rifkin talks about how as empathic beings we can build an empathic civilisation at a global level and can really build a better world.
One of the issues of social robots is the unknown long-term social effects ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/09/the-empathic-civilisation-and-roboethics/</link>
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		<title>Robots need love too…! – Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s the summer.
The beautiful weather in Vancouver for the past couple of months really hasn&#8217;t been very helpful keeping me posting for the blog.
But with the notion of that Summer should be filled with lots of fun, I&#8217;d like to share some robot-filled entertainment with you. Hardly a headline material, I agree. But the epic-ness of the music video you&#8217;re about to see may to justice to that.
So here is Dan Mangan, a local Canadian artist, with a song called Robots.

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		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/07/robots-need-love-too-music/</link>
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		<title>Making Friends With a Robot Named Bina48</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporter Amy Harmond interviews Bina48, a robot developed by David Hanson.
Follow the link below to watch the video interview.
Making Friends With a Robot Named Bina48
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		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/07/making-friends-with-a-robot-named-bina48/</link>
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		<title>The Secret Powers of Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat unknowingly, I had been following a systematically devised set of rituals to prepare and eat all my meals.
After rushing back from my lab, located conveniently within 2 minutes of walking distance, I put my bagel in the toaster and open my laptop sitting beside it. A progress bar starts to move forward as the laptop wakes up from its &#8216;sleep&#8217; mode.  A slice of bagel takes longer to toast than the time it takes for my laptop to wake up for me. Before the progress bar reaches the 50% ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/07/the-secrete-powers-of-time/</link>
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		<title>The Case for Paro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Machiel Van der Loos forwarded me an article on Paro from the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago. Paro is a furry baby seal robot with the potential to impact people emotionally: it has two huge eyes that can stare at you adoringly and it can move its body parts like a real pup. Emotional bonds with artifacts, such as objects, etc, have been discussed for hundreds and thousands of years in literature. The question for today's discussion is, ‘Would our emotional bonds with Paro lead to a happy ending, or an ethical ending?’]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/06/the-case-for-paro/</link>
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		<title>BBC News &#8211; Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the world a robot conducted a wedding for a cute Japanese couple, BBC reports.
BBC News &#8211; Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding.

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		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/05/bbc-news-tokyo-couple-married-by-robot-in-rooftop-wedding/</link>
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		<title>Family Robots &amp; Privacy Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Trendhunter magazine, a Chinese robotics company called Siasun has built a robot that:
&#8230; has the ability to spot gas leaks, monitor your health, talk to you when you are alone, communicate with the police, send text messages and take phone calls when you are not at home.
The robot is built for to take on the role of caretakers for the elderly population. To a lot of people, the above mentioned features of the robot hardly seem enough to call the robot a &#8216;nanny robot&#8217; or a &#8216;caretaker ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/05/family-robots-privacy-issuse/</link>
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		<title>Roboethics: A Special Issue on Robotics and Automation Magazine (Mar 2011)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last December I first made a post about the upcoming IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine(RAM) call for papers for the special issue on  roboethics.
Well, the deadline for the paper submission is approaching quickly, and hence, it&#8217;s worth posting again.
When is the deadline? It&#8217;s September 1st 2010.
This is opportunity is really exciting because the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine is not just any magazine that gets mailed to people&#8217;s houses once in a while just to be thrown out months later.
IEEE is one of the largest, if not the largest, engineering association, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/05/special-issue-on-roboethics-robotics-and-automation-magazine/</link>
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		<title>ECAP10 Deadline Extended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, I made a post on call for papers for ECAP2010, the 8th Conference on Computing and Philosophy. For those of you who hasn&#8217;t had the time to finish writing up an abstract, by April 7th, you still have a chance!
The deadline for the conference has been extended as follows:
· April 7th, 2010-&#62; May 7th, 2010: Abstract submission deadline
· May 9th, 2010 -&#62;June 9th, 2010: Notification of acceptance
· May 31st, 2010-&#62; June 15th, 2010 : Early registration deadline
· October 4th &#8211; 6th, 2010: Conference
Below is a recap some of the details ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amoon.ca/Roboethics/2010/04/ecap10-deadline-extended/</link>
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