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Next week, we will be organizing three workshops at the European Robotics Forum in Tampere:   „Solving problems like corruption or crime by the means of robotics“ Tuesday, March 13th, 8:30 am – 10:00 am   „Legislation vs. selfregulation – how to shape the future of robotics?“ Thursday, March 15th, 10:45 am – 12:15 pm […]

Intergenerational justice = the needs of the current generation should be met without compromising the needs and prospects of future generations. (Brundtland, G. H., and Khalid, M. „Our common future”. New York, 1987)

We are currently planning the workshops on self-regulation and the Robot Manifesto for the next European Robotics Forum (13-15 March 2018, Tampere, Finland). Save the date!

We presented our latest paper on „Robotic Governance: a Literature Review and Research Agenda“ at the ROBOT2017 conference in Sevilla (Spain) this evening. It will soon be published in Springer as well as on the Robotic Governance website. Thank you for the great discussion!

Roboethics = ethics in robotics (Veruggio, 2006). Ethics = a subfield of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

In the literature, it is distinguished between potential threats arising from the robot itself, from the hardware, that could be used for example to commit a crime, like filming things without permission – and on the other hand, there is Artificial Intelligence, which could mean that the machine develops a personality, a free will, and […]