EDITED BY: Fiorella Operto (lead GE), The School of Robotics, Italy (email: operto@scuoladirobotica.it) Raja Chatila, ISIR, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France Guido Nicolosi, University of Catania, Italy George Bekey, University of Southern California, USA Mariachiara Tallacchini, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
DESCRIPTION
Employed by human society in numbers and applications larger than today, robotics is going to trigger widespread social and economic changes, opening new social and ethical problems for which designers, manufacturers, end user, and public, and private policy must be prepared now. As the application field for robots is widening, and the robot is coming out of the factory halls (cobots), new challenges are seen, and even a change of paradigm is taking shape. New HumanRobot interactions are to be forecasted, involving human body, health care and augmentation issues, challenging privacy, human communication and social interactions, and digital/robotics divide.
Roboethics deals with the ethical aspects of the design, development and employment of intelligent machines. It shares many subjects and methodology with computer ethics, information ethics and bioethics. Roboethical issues are new and never fully explored, involving transdisciplinarity and calling for original solution that we would need the contributions and efforts of all scientific and human disciplines, in a common endeavor. In fact, not only roboticists, but also Law, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, and Philosophy are studying the potentialities of these intelligent machines in relation to human beings.
CONTENTS
"Corporantia: Is moral consciousness above individual brains/robots?" by Christopher Charles Santos-Lang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2018-0001
