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Bekey, George
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
 
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   Roboethics: a navigating overview
Tzafestas S., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 204 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319217-13-0)

The term “roboethics” is due to Gianmarco Veruggio, who introduced it in a workshop at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The term is more popular in Europe than in the US. This book ...

Nov 10 2015  
   The robot: the life story of a technology
Nocks L., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 224 pp.  Type: Book (9780801890710)

This book is a remarkably complete history of robotics, from early descriptions of simple mechanisms and the automata of the nineteenth century, to the rise of industrial robotics and contemporary mobile robots. While Nocks is a histor...

Jun 8 2009  
   AI armageddon and the three laws of robotics
Mccauley L. Ethics and Information Technology 9(2): 153-164, 2007.  Type: Article

Robots are in the news constantly these days. On one hand, they are used increasingly to assist us in the home, for entertainment purposes, or as components of prosthetic devices; on the other hand, the military uses more and more robo...

Sep 5 2008  
   Ethical acts in robotics
Irrgang B. Ubiquity 7(34): 2-16, 2006.  Type: Article

This philosophical paper was written by a well-known philosopher at the Dresden University of Technology. His specialties are philosophy of technology and ethics. Unfortunately, the paper suffers from two major difficulties. First, it ...

Feb 7 2007  
 
 
   
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