Topics
Contributions are welcome on the ethical, legal and societal aspects of the following topics (but not limited to):
- Robot Ethics (Decision procedures/algorithms for moral behavior)
- Technical Dependability (Availability; Reliability; Safety; Security)
- Military application of robotics (Acceptability, Advantages and Risks, Codes)
- Health (Robotics in surgery; Robotics in health care, assistance, prosthetics and therapy)
- Service (Social robotics, Personal assistants, Companions)
- Economy (Replacing humans in the workplace; Robotics and the job market)
- Psychology (Position of humans in the control hierarchy; Robots and children)
- Law (Robots and liability; Deployment of autonomously acting robots)
- Environment (Sustainable exploitation of resources; Cleaning nuclear and toxic waste)