Transcript Robot companions - Mathematical & Computer Sciences

F21RO1 Robotics & Automation
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF
ROBOT COMPANIONS
Dimitra Gkatzia
Deepak Raj Murugaian
Bhanubhak Nunbhakdi
ROBOT COMPANIANS
WHAT IS A ROBOT COMPANION?
TASKS
ROLES
TYPES OF ROBOT COMPANIONS
COLLABORATORS
SUITS
EXPLORERS
BODY AUGUMENTATION SYSTEM
COMPANAIAN BOTS IN MARKET
WIDELY USED ROBOT COMPANIONS
•CleanMate
•Dressman
•RoboMower
•Aibo
•Spykee
•Wakamaru
•RIBA
•DiGORO
Future of Social Robots
• By 2050,Imagine every home will have a robot as a
member of their family!!!
• If these robots can feel pain, should they be granted
certain rights?
• If robots develop emotions, as some experts think
they will, should they be allowed to marry humans?
• Should they be allowed to own property? Do they be
provided with citizenship?
ISSAC ASIMO’S LAWS
1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human
beings, except where such orders would conflict with
the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as
such protection does not conflict with the First or
Second Law.
Ethical and Social Issues
• Automated robots or robots commanded by
humans?
• Emotional robots
• Robots can affect human relationships
• Robots may affect human’s privacy
Privacy
Disclosure of information:
a) existence of malware
b) behavior of robot in front of others
c) design (fault programming, on purpose)
Elderly and Robot Companions
•Usually suffer from isolation – loneliness
Issues raised by usage of Robot Companions:
•Robots’ Reaction in different situations
•Robots’ Tolerance
•Robots’ Responses
Children and Robot Companions
• Robot nannies
Ethical and social issues
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Privacy
Restraints
Deception
Accountability
Psychological Damage
Robots; rights and legislation
Robots’ rights
•Robot Ethics Charter
•(ISO, 2006a) has set of rules—especially ISO 10218-1:2006
•Further study : legislation – children’s negligence
REFERENCES
• Noel Sharkey, COMPUTER SCIENCE: The Ethical Frontiers of Robotics,
(Science 19 December 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5909, pp. 1800 – 1801 DOI:
10.1126/science.1164582), Department of Computer Science,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
• The Burden of Embodied Autonomy: Some Reflections on the Social
and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Robots, Matthias Scheutz Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Charles R. Crowell
- Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
46556, USA.
• Linda A.Murray and John T.E. Richardson, Intelligent Systems in a
Human Context, Development, Implications and Applications, Oxford
Science Publications, 1989.
• Lawrence E. Hinman, Robotic Companions: Some ethical questions to
consider, Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego, USA,
2009.
REFERENCES
• Dag Sverre Syrdal, Michael L. Walters, Nuno Otero, Kheng Lee
Koay and Kerstin Dautenhahn, "He Knows When You Are Sleeping"
– Privacy and the Personal Robot Companion, Adaptive Systems
Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of
Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2007.
• Noel Sharkey, Amanda Sharkey. The crying shame of robot
nannies: an ethical appraisal. Interaction Studies, Volume 11,
Number 2, 161-190(30), 2010.
• Robot companions for citizens by Paolo Dario, MicroBioRobotics,Department of Micro-BioRobotics, from Italian
Institute of Technology.
• Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Chien-Hsun Chen and Cheun-Tsai Sun,” Safety
REFERENCES
• Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Chien-Hsun Chen and Cheun-Tsai Sun,” Safety
Intelligence and Legal Machine Language-Do we need the Three
Laws of Robotics? ”, in Yoshihiko Takahashi (Ed.) Service Robot
Applications, Vienna: Intec Education & Publishing, August 2008.
ISBN 978-953-7619-00-8 Available at:
http://works.bepress.com/weng_yueh_hsuan/3
• The Social Computer – Combining machine and human by
Fausto Giunchiglia, Computer Science and Information
Engineering, University of Trento.
• Exploratory Workshop on the Social Impacts of Robotics:
Summary and Issues compiled by office of technology
assessment, United States of America.
• A Robot in Every Home by Bill gates, published in scientific
American Inc,Janauary,2007.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/A_Robot_in_Every_Home
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