A World with Robots: International Conference on Robot Ethics: ICRE 2015 (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 84)

This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015. The conference provided a multidisciplinary forum for discussing central and evolving issues concerning safety and ethics that have arisen in various contexts where robotic technologies are being applied. The papers are intended to promote the formulation of more precise safety standards and ethical frameworks for the rapidly changing field of robotic applications. The conference was held at Pavilhão do Conhecimento/Ciência Viva in Lisbon and brought together leading researchers and industry representatives, promoting a dialogue that combines different perspectives and experiences to arrive at viable solutions for ethical problems in the context of robotics. The conference topics included but were not limited to emerging ethical, safety, legal and societal problems in the following domains: • Service/Social Robots: Robots performing tasks in human environments and involving close human-robot interactions in everyday households; robots for education and entertainment; and robots employed in elderly and other care applications • Mobile Robots: Self-driving vehicles, autonomous aircraft, trains, cars and drones • Robots used in medicine and for therapeutic purposes • Robots used in surveillance and military functions Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Networks of Social and Moral Norms in Human and Robot Agents....Pages 3-17 Perceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of Appearance and Context....Pages 19-33 Formalizing Complex Normative Decisions with Predicate Logic and Graph Databases....Pages 35-45 A 21st-Century Ethical Hierarchy for Robots and Persons: \(\mathscr {E \! H}\) ....Pages 47-61 Robots and Free Software....Pages 63-76 An Intervening Ethical Governor for a Robot Mediator in Patient-Caregiver Relationships....Pages 77-91 Exploring the Ethical Landscape of Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue....Pages 93-107 Reporting Robot Ethics for Children-Robot Studies in Contemporary Peer Reviewed Papers....Pages 109-117 A Typology of Liability Rules for Robot Harms....Pages 119-133 Safety and Ethical Concerns in Mixed Human-Robot Control of Vehicles....Pages 135-144 Leader-Follower Strategies for Robot-Human Collaboration....Pages 145-158 Industrial Robot Ethics: The Challenges of Closer Human Collaboration in Future Manufacturing Systems....Pages 159-169 Clarifying the Language of Lethal Autonomy in Military Robots....Pages 171-183 Safety Issues of the Portuguese Military Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems....Pages 185-198 Robots and the Military: A Strategic View....Pages 199-205 The Domestic Robot: Ethical and Technical Concerns....Pages 207-216 Robots in Ageing Societies....Pages 217-223 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Nós e Os Robots/Os Robots e Nós: Insights from an Exhibition....Pages 227-232 The Robot Steps In: From Normative to Prospective Ethics....Pages 233-238 Back Matter....Pages 239-240