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At We Robot 2013 Diana Cooper, a JD Candidate at the University of Ottawa, presented her attempt to tackle the open source headache by proposing a new license called the Ethical Robot License (ERL). In her paper, A Licensing Approach to Regulation of Open Robotics, Cooper presents ERL as “a licensing approach to allocate liability between manufacturers and users and promote ethical and non-harmful use of open robots”.
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The New Scientist, The Daily Maverick (South Africa) and other media covered a roboethics related story this Friday by introducing Borut Povše and colleagues’ recent work presented at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and …
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 …
Civilian Casualties due to Drone Attacks – NYTimes Reports
The New York Times reports that a “Predator drone pilot played down two warnings about the presence of children before military commanders ordered a helicopter attack that killed 23 Afghan civilians…”
The article also brings up …
Roboethics Call for Papers: TILTing Perspectives 2011
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.
The Empathic Civilisation and Roboethics
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 …
Robots need love too…! – Music
Yes, it’s the summer.
The beautiful weather in Vancouver for the past couple of months really hasn’t been very helpful keeping me posting for the blog.
But with the notion of that Summer should be filled with …
Making Friends With a Robot Named Bina48
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
The Secret Powers of Time
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 …
The Case for Paro
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?’
BBC News – Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding
For the first time in the world a robot conducted a wedding for a cute Japanese couple, BBC reports.
BBC News – Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding.
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AJung (@RoboEthics)
Writes about anything & everything Roboethics. Ph.D. student studying Human-Robot Interaction and Roboethics. Mechatronics engineer with a sprinkle of Philosophy background.
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