ICRA - International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Full Day Workshop on Roboethics - Programme

[SF-9] Roboethics - Program

Morning first part 08:30-10:20: "INTERACTION"
Chair: George A. BEKEY, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Welcome

Robots interacting with Humans: confronting the Critical Challenge of Machine Intelligence Dependability

Georges GIRALT, LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France
Eugenio GUGLIELMELLI, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Roma Italy

Mottainai Thought and Social Acceptability of Robots in Japan

Atsuo TAKANISHI, Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Roboethics in Biorobotics: Discussion of Case Studies

Pericle SALVINI, Cecilia LASCHI, Paolo DARIO, ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Technology and Disability. The Cost, Efficiency and Acceptability trade-off

Josep AMAT and Alícia CASALS, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Human-Robot Interaction in Autism

A. FORNAI, G. PIOGGIA, S. CASALINI, G. DELLA MURA, M. L. SICA, M. FERRO, A. AHLUWALIA, R. IGLIOZZI, F. MURATORI, D. DE ROSSI, Interdepartmental Research Center "E. Piaggio", University of Pisa, Italy

Coffee break

10:20-10:40

Morning second part 10:40-12:30: "METHODOLOGY"
Chair: Ronald C. ARKIN, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA

Animism, Rinri, Modernization: the Base of Japanese Robotics

Naho KITANO, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Ethics by Design: A Conceptual Approach to Personal and Service Robot Systems

H. F. Machiel VAN DER LOOS, Stanford University, CA, USA

Economically Autonomous Robotic Entities

Carson REYNOLDS, Alvaro CASSINELLI and Masatoshi ISHIKAWA, University of Tokyo, Japan

The Roboethics Roadmap

Gianmarco VERUGGIO, National Research Council, Genoa, Italy

Morning Discussion (30 min)

Lunch

12.30-14.00

Afternoon first part 14:00-15:50: "IMPLICATIONS"
Chair: Atsuo TAKANISHI, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Can Humans Be Replaced by Autonomous Robots? Ethical Reflections in the Framework of
an Interdisciplinary Technology Assessment

Michael DECKER, ITAS, Research Centre Karlsruhe, Germany

The Burden of Embodied Autonomy: Some Reflections on the Social and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Robots

Matthias SCHEUTZ, Charles CROWELL, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA

Lethality and Autonomous Robots: An Ethical Stance

Ronald C. ARKIN, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA

Robot Prostitutes as Alternatives to Human Sex Workers

David LEVY, London,UK

Robots and Responsibility from a Legal Perspective

Peter Mario ASARO, HUMLab, University of Umeå, Sweden

Coffee break

15:50-16:10

Afternoon second part 16:10-18:00: "ACTIONS"
Chair: Gianmarco VERUGGIO, National Research Council, Genova, Italy

1. The precautionary principle and its normative challenges.
2. From the Ethics of Technology towards an Ethics of Knowledge Policy & Knowledge Assessment
René VON SCHOMBERG, European Commission DG Research, Governance and Ethics Unit, Brussels, Belgium

Introduction to the EUROP Workpackage on Legal, Societal and Ethical Issues

David BISSET, iTechnic Ltd., Bath, UK

Recent Int'l Initiatives on Roboethics

Fiorella OPERTO, School of Robotics, Genoa, Italy

Final Roundtable (50 min)

Contributors:
Raja CHATILA, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
José M. GALVAN, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy
Brian M. O'CONNELL, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA
Mariachiara TALLACCHINI, University of Piacenza, Italy
Guglielmo TAMBURRINI, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Organizers

Organizers - The workshop is on the initiative of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Roboethics

Gianmarco VERUGGIO (Corresponding Co-chair)
CNR-Robotlab, Via de Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy
Tel.: +39-0106475616/625,
Fax: +39-0106475646
President, School of Robotics
C.P. 4124 P.za Monastero 4, 16149 Genova, Italy
E-mail: gianmarco AT veruggio DOT it

Ron ARKIN
(Co-Chair)
Regents’ Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory;
College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Phone: 1-404-894-8209
Fax: 1- 404-385-4251
E-mail: arkin AT cc DOT gatech DOT edu

Atsuo TAKANISHI
(Co-Chair)
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Waseda University 3-4-1 Ookubo,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, JAPAN
Phone:+81-3-5286-3257,
Fax:+81-3-5273-2209
E-mail: takanisi AT waseda DOT jp

Local Organizing Committee:

Fiorella Operto, Emanuele Micheli, Paolo Bianchetti

Contact:

E-mail: info AT roboethics DOT org