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Article published In: Human Robot Collaborative Intelligence: Theory and applications
Edited by Chenguang Yang, Xiaofeng Liu, Junpei Zhong and Angelo Cangelosi
[Interaction Studies 20:1] 2019
► pp. 134–147

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Ethics and risks between human and robotic interaction

 | Northwestern Polytechnical University
 | Northwestern Polytechnical University
Published online: 15 July 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18009.yu
Abstract
Robot is definitely playing important role in human society. Low contact on machine standards is mostly on industrial robot while close contacts are in increasing demand in service robot, etc. The development of robotics with advanced hardware and artificial intelligence (AI) provide the possibility with human beings while close contacts raise many new issues on ethics and risks. For interaction, the related technique of perception, cognition and interaction are briefly introduced. For ethics, rules should be given for the robot designers to include ethics for certain application while risks should be evaluated during the experiment test. To make efficient decision, safety design with AI technology should be put on agenda for roboticists. Except from the risks, ethics raise many challenges while most of them can be solved by developing technologies while some of the problems exist in human’s society which also raise the questions for the human beings. More broader vision should be taken from different social departments together to avoid the possible embarrassed issues. It’s time to welcome the world of robotics and related techniques will make life more efficient while human-robot coexistence society will come one day and law should be imposed on both.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Interactions between robotics and human beings
  • 3.Ethics and risks between robotics and human beings
  • 4.Conclusions
  • References
  • Sources
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