15/09/2016 - Lectures, News
London, UK, 12-14 September 2016: CLAWAR. Gianmarco Veruggio on Roboethics, Focus on drones
Reading time: 1 minuteThe School of Robotics Honorary President, Gianmarco Veruggio, is key note Speaker at CLAWAR conference with a talk on "Roboethics - Focus on Drones". The presentation, after an introduction on Roboethics, will outline the new issues posed by the increasing spread of the use of drones beyond the scope of their traditional employments for research and military aims.
The 19th CLAWAR International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2016), will be held in London, United Kingdom, September 12 – 14, 2016. The venue for CLAWAR 2016 is Queen Mary University of London. The conference will feature technical and social programs. The technical program will comprise plenaries, regular and special/invited sessions, industrial robot exhibition, robot competition and social activities for attendees and guests.
Gianmarco Veruggio: Roboethics - Focus on Drones [Tuesday 13 September 2016 / 09:00 - 10:00]
Abstract: The presentation, after an introduction on Roboethics, outlines the new issues posed by the increasing spread of the use of drones beyond the scope of their traditional employments for research and military aims. The Speaker explains why new and updated regulatory rules are needed because of the widespread use of drone consumer market. Furthermore, ethical, legal and societal aspects (ELSA) of employment of drones should be deeply discussed due to the massive use of drones in the so called “war on terror”. Actually, most of these issues arise from the military origin of the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). But also their civilian use poses important problems of safety, privacy, anonymity and secrecy.