19/05/2011 - Articles, News, Publications
May, 2011: The current issues of Robotics&Automation Magazine featuring a Special Issue on Roboethics
Reading time: 1 minuteThe current issue (Vol. 18, n. 1, March 2011) includes 57 pages devoted to the Special Issue on Robot ethics. Editors: Gianmarco Veruggio, Jorge Solis, and Machiel Van der Loos.
Robotics research is increasingly raising ethical implications related to the emerging interactions between robots and human beings. Roboethics deals with the ethical aspects of the design, development and employment of intelligent machines.
It shares many "sensitive areas" with computer ethics, information ethics and bioethics. Progress in the field of computer science and telecommunications allows us to endow machines with enough intelligence so that they may act autonomously. Therefore, we can forecast that in the twenty-first century humanity will coexist with the first alien intelligence we have ever come in contact with – robots.
However; as the application field for robots is widening, and the robot is coming out of the factory halls, new challenges are seen, and even a change of paradigm is taking shape. Not only roboticists, but also sociologists, psychologists and philosophers are discussing the potentialities and the limits of these intelligent machines in relation to human beings.Robotics research is increasingly raising ethical implications related to the emerging interactions between robots and human beings.
Roboethics deals with the ethical aspects of the design, development and employment of intelligent machines. It shares many "sensitive areas" with computer ethics, information ethics and bioethics. Progress in the field of computer science and telecommunications allows us to endow machines with enough intelligence so that they may act autonomously.
Therefore, we can forecast that in the twenty-first century humanity will coexist with the first alien intelligence we have ever come in contact with – robots. However; as the application field for robots is widening, and the robot is coming out of the factory halls, new challenges are seen, and even a change of paradigm is taking shape. Not only roboticists, but also sociologists, psychologists and philosophers are discussing the potentialities and the limits of these intelligent machines in relation to human beings.