Ethics and social robotics

Beyond Robot Ethics: On a Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics

As robots are increasingly integrated into human society, associated problems will resemble or merge with those in other fields — we can refer to this phenomenon as the ‘robot sociability problem’. In this paper, the author first analyzes the dynamic relationship between robot ethics, robotics and robot law, and then proposes a ‘practical robots’ approach for solving the robot sociability probl...

Ethics, robotics and medicine development

The humanity was more and more dissatisfied with its skills, especially because they think that our possibility to see, hear or use our sense has limits. In that context, in the XX century were developed a lot of tools for sustaining the medical care. The application of robots in medicine is a new way of developing medicine and could assure a lot of new facilities for humanity. But, of course, ...

The Ethics of Robotics

“1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.” [16] Isaac Asimov These three laws first appeared together...

Elderly and Social Ethics

Background: Negative beliefs and stereotypes about aging guide the lifestyle of people in a society and its behavioral and psychological consequences affect mental and physical health. Many individual and social problems have moral roots. In the shadow of social ethics, the social security of individuals is maintained. The present study examines the attitude of society towards aging and immoral...

Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design