Robotics: Morals and machines

The New Robotics-towards human-centered machines.

Research in robotics has moved away from its primary focus on industrial applications. The New Robotics is a vision that has been developed in past years by our own university and many other national and international research institutions and addresses how increasingly more human-like robots can live among us and take over tasks where our current society has shortcomings. Elder care, physical ...

Morals and Medicine

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Law, Language and Morals

Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend.

MARGA VICEDO teaches history of biology at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Valencia, and a PhD in history of science from Harvard University. She is interested in the history and philosophy of biology in the twentieth century, especially the history of genetics, e...

Emotion Machines: Projective Intelligence and Emotion in Robotics

This paper investigates the measurement of social robot performance in order to develop and understand man-machine interaction. It outlines some of the critical points influencing human robot interaction, and details an experiment that demonstrates the willingness of people to treat robots as if they had some human characteristics. It discusses the prevalent factors in the assessment of this pe...