Towards Industrial Robots with Human-like Moral Responsibilities
Paper in proceeding, 2010

Robots do not have any capability of taking moral responsibility. At the same time industrial robotics is entering a new era with ¿intelligent¿ robots sharing workbench with humans. Teams consisting of humans and industrial robots are no longer science fiction. The biggest worry in this scenario is the fear of humans losing control and robots running amok. We believe that the current way of implementing safety measures have shortcomings, and cannot address challenges related to close collaboration between humans and robots. We propose that ¿intelligent¿ industrial robots of the future should have moral responsibilities towards their human colleagues. We also propose that implementation of moral responsibility is radically different from standard safety measures.

Author

Baran Çürüklü

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers)

University of Gothenburg

Batu Akan

5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan, March 2010

85-86
978-1-4244-4893-7 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1109/HRI.2010.5453259

ISBN

978-1-4244-4893-7

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10/7/2017