Abstract
Nowadays robots are no longer ‘fully slave machines’ that satisfy only human desires. This is because they possess some degree of cognition, intelligence, and autonomy, like the surgical, socialized, and war robots. The key issue in all these robot classes is the responsibility assignment issue, i.e. the problem of distributing ethical and legal responsibility among the robot designer, the manufacturer and user/operator, or to the robot itself, in case of harm. This chapter considers the ethical and legal issues of two more classes of modern robots, namely autonomous (driverless) cars and cyborgs (cybernetic organisms).Then it discusses the issues of privacy security when using sensor-based home and socialized robots.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erick Fromm
We’re seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It’s a golden age of invention.
Donald Norman
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IFR Statistical Department Executive Summary of World Robotics: Industrial Robot and Service Robots report (www.worldrobotics.org).
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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). Additional Roboethics Issues. In: Roboethics. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21714-7_11
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