Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics

Veruggio, G.; Operto, Fiorella

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30301-5_65

Cited by 85 publications

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“…“The target of roboethics,” as Veruggio and Operto explain, “is not the robot and its artificial ethics, but the human ethics of the robots’ designers, manufacturers, and users” [80]. …”

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Ethics and Occupational Health in the Contemporary World of Work

Iavicoli

Valenti

Gagliardi

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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The last two decades have seen increasing attention to professional ethics in the field of occupational health in industrialized and developing countries, partly reflecting the changing world of work, demographic shifts and new technologies. These changes have led to the revisiting of traditional ethical principles and the emergence of ethical issues related to occupational health. This article looks at the problems raised by these ethical concerns and proposes some solutions. We revised the existing literature on the ethical conflict in occupational health in order to identifying drivers and barriers for correct professional ethics. The ethical choices are not only based on balanced risk and benefit assessment for various stakeholders, but there are a number of deontological aspects as well that go beyond the mere benefit domains. There is still no systematic approach for analysing the true extent of these issues and their solutions.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethics and Occupational Health in the Contemporary World of Work

Iavicoli

Valenti

Gagliardi

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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“…Ethical reasons for and against this robot revolution in healthcare have been presented in recent years (Lin et al 2011). On the one hand, it has been argued that robots hold the promise to mitigate the shortage of healthcare workers and resources (Veruggio and Operto 2008), and that they can enhance the autonomy of elderly persons (Sorell and Draper 2014). On the other hand, the concern has been raised that robots in healthcare will displace workers and will change the moral quality and standard of care for the worse (Sparrow and Sparrow 2006; Decker 2008; Coeckelbergh 2010; Vallor 2011; Sharkey 2014).…”

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When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach

Sio

Wynsberghe

2015

Sci Eng Ethics

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When should we use care robots? In this paper we endorse the shift from a simple normative approach to care robots ethics to a complex one: we think that one main task of a care robot ethics is that of analysing the different ways in which different care robots may affect the different values at stake in different care practices. We start filling a gap in the literature by showing how the philosophical analysis of the nature of healthcare activities can contribute to (care) robot ethics. We rely on the nature-of-activities approach recently proposed in the debate on human enhancement, and we apply it to the ethics of care robots. The nature-of-activities approach will help us to understand why certain practice-oriented activities in healthcare should arguably be left to humans, but certain (predominantly) goal-directed activities in healthcare can be fulfilled (sometimes even more ethically) with the assistance of a robot. In relation to the latter, we aim to show that even though all healthcare activities can be considered as practice-oriented, when we understand the activity in terms of different legitimate ‘fine-grained’ descriptions, the same activities or at least certain components of them can be seen as clearly goal-directed. Insofar as it allows us to ethically assess specific functionalities of specific robots to be deployed in well-defined circumstances, we hold the nature-of-activities approach to be particularly helpful also from a design perspective, i.e. to realize the Value Sensitive Design approach.

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“…In recent years as an initiative to promote the discussion among robotics, the Technical Committee on Roboethics has been introduced [18]. Roboethics is an applied ethics whose objective is to develop scientific/cultural/technical tools that can be shared by different social groups and beliefs.…”

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Practical issues on robotic education and challenges towards Roboethics Education

Solı́s

Takanishi

2009

RO-MAN 2009 - The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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The rapidly increase of personal robotic platforms and their applications in Japan represents a great challenge for universities to introduce undergraduate students the basic knowledge required to develop intelligent automated mechanisms, by introducing in simple and efficient ways the basic components of robots as well as their application for solving real-world problems. In Japan, the proliferation of amateur robot contests has been introduced to motivate their interest to get involved in the robotics field. This is not only the case for tournaments supported by local governments and private companies. Several universities along Japan have been implementing Project-Based Learning (PBL) within their curricula as introduction for Mechatronic. For this purpose, at Waseda University, we focused in developing an education tool designed to introduce at different educational levels the principle of developing mechatronic systems. In particular, the development of an inverted pendulum mobile robot Waseda Wheeled Vehicle No. 2 (WV-2R) has been proposed. In this paper, an overview of the research results is detailed. Even that in many universities around the world has been promoting the introduction of robotic technology, little discussion has been done to analyze from an ethical point of view. In this paper, some issues related to both Robot Education and Engineering Ethical Education are give based on experiences carried out in Japan. Then, some points regarding the integration of RoboEthics Education are pointed out for discussion.

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Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics

Cited by 85 publications

References 18 publications

Ethics and Occupational Health in the Contemporary World of Work

Ethics and Occupational Health in the Contemporary World of Work

When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach

Practical issues on robotic education and challenges towards Roboethics Education

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