Events

• Kick-off meeting
• First workshop (Naples, 17-18 October 2006)

News (full list)

Napoli,April 30th 2008
End of Ethicbots Project

The Ethicbots Project was completed.

Pisa, Aula Magna Storica, La Sapienza,June 5th 2007
Human-machine integration: ethical and social issues

The workshop - organized in the framework of the ETHICBOTS project - will address social responsibility and personal identity issues arising in the context of physical and cognitive interaction with artificial agents (including robots, bionic systems, softbots, and 'smart environments').

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University,14 April 2007
Full Day Workshop on Roboethics

Roboethics deals with the ethical aspects of the design, development and employment of Intelligent Machines. It shares many 'sensitive areas' with Computer Ethics, Information Ethics and Bioethics. Along these disciplines, it investigates the social and ethical problems due to the effects of the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions in the Humans/Machines interaction’s domain. Urged by the responsibilities involved in their professions, an increasing number of roboticists from all over the world have started - in cross-cultural collaboration with scholars of Humanities – to thoroughly develop the Roboethics, the applied ethics that should inspire the design, manufacturing and use of robots. The goal of the Workshop is a cross-cultural update for engineering scientists who wish to monitor the medium and long effects of applied robotics technologies. It intends to identify and discuss sensitive area in Robotics, such as:

• Social (Robotics and the job market; Cost benefit analysis; Transparency and public consensus);
• Psychological (Robots and kids; Robots and elderly, disabled and ill people; Robotics in Education);
• Legal (Robots and liability; Identification of autonomously acting robots; Position of humans in the control hierarchy; Biometric data processing by intelligent systems; Multi-agent decision making);
• Medical (Robotics in health care and prosthesis; Robotics in surgery; Bionics for enhancing humans);
• Warfare application of robotics.

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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom,6-8 September 2006
15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

IEEE RO-MAN 06 provides a forum for an interdisciplinary exchange for researchers dedicated to advancing knowledge in the field of human-robot interaction and communication.

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Napoli, Italy,April 20-22
Workshop

In the framework of the workshop 'Processi cognitivi e formazione: teorie, modelli, progetti', a talk on 'Tecnoetica dell'interazione uomo-macchina: robotica, bionica e IA per l'AI' will be given by an ethcobots consortium member on april 21st.

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Bloomington, IN USA,June 3, 2006
EthicALife: An ALifeX Workshop

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