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80. Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications

verfasst von : Gianmarco Veruggio, Fiorella Operto, George Bekey

Erschienen in: Springer Handbook of Robotics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter outlines the main developments of roboethics 9 years after a worldwide debate on the subject – that is, the applied ethics about ethical, legal, and societal aspects of robotics – opened up. Today, roboethics not only counts several thousands of voices on the Web, but is the issue of important literature relating to almost all robotics applications, and of hundreds of rich projects, workshops, and conferences. This increasing interest and sometimes even fierce debate expresses the perception and need of scientists, manufacturers, and users of professional guidelines and ethical indications about robotics in society.
Some of the issues presented in the chapter are well known to engineers, and less known or unknown to scholars of humanities, and vice versa. However, because the subject is transversal to many disciplines, complex, articulated, and often misrepresented, some of the fundamental concepts relating to ethics in science and technology are recalled and clarified.
A detailed taxonomy of sensitive areas is presented. It is based on a study of several years and referred to by scientists and scholars, the result of which is the Euron Roboethics Roadmap. This taxonomy identifies the most evident/urgent/sensitive ethical problems in the main applicative fields of robotics, leaving more in-depth research to further studies.

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Metadaten
Titel
Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications
verfasst von
Gianmarco Veruggio
Fiorella Operto
George Bekey
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32552-1_80

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