Building Resilient Governance Frameworks for Human-Robot Collaboration: Towards a More Interdisciplinary Understanding of Risk and Ethics in European Regulation

Abstract

This paper explores a wide range of perspectives on the study of AI applications and robotics offered by both technical and social disciplines, and pools them together to best capture their associated risk and safety concerns. After a comprehensive thematic review, the paper concludes that finding the right approach to regulating them requires both an interdisciplinary point of view and the interrogation of the underlying narratives surrounding human-robot interaction. This research contributes to current EU-wide efforts to enact a legislative framework that both supports innovation and protects citizens' rights in the domain of emerging technologies.