A Roadmap for Responsible Robotics: Promoting Human Agency and Collaborative Efforts
Journal article, 2025
This document presents the outcomes of the Dagstuhl Seminar 'Roadmap for Responsible Robotics,' held in September 2023 at the Leibniz Center for Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The seminar brought together researchers from the fields of robotics, computer science, social and cognitive sciences, and philosophy with the aim of charting a path toward improving responsibility in robotic systems. Through intensive interdisciplinary discussions centered on the various values at stake as robotics increasingly integrates into human life, the participants identified key priorities to guide future research and regulatory efforts. The resulting road map outlines actionable steps to ensure that robotic systems coevolve with human societies, promoting human agency and humane values rather than undermining them. Designed for diverse stakeholders - researchers, policy makers, industry leaders, practitioners, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society groups - this road map provides a foundation for collaborative efforts toward responsible robotics.
Author
Dejanira Araiza-Illan
Johnson & Johnson EAME
Kevin Baum
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz
Helen Beebee
University of Leeds
Raja Chatila
Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen
University of Sheffield
Simon Coghlan
University of Melbourne
Emily Collins
University of Manchester
S. Kate Conroy
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Alcino Cunha
University of Minho
Anna Dobrosovestnova
IT:U
Hein Duijf
Utrecht University
Vanessa Evers
Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Michael Fisher
University of Manchester
Nico Hochgeschwender
Universität Bremen
Nadin Kokciyan
University of Edinburgh
Severin Lemaignan
PAL Robotics
Francisco Rodriguez-Lera
Universidad de Leon
Sara Ljungblad
University of Gothenburg
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
Martin Magnusson
Örebro University
Masoumeh Mansouri
University of Birmingham
Michael Milford
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
AJung Moon
McGill University
Thomas M. Powers
University of Delaware
Pericle Salvini
University of Oxford
Teresa Scantamburlo
University of Trieste
Nick Schuster
University of Georgia
Marija Slavkovik
University of Bergen
Ufuk Topcu
The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Vanegas
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andrzej Wąsowski
IT University of Copenhagen
Yi Yang
KU Leuven
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
1070-9932 (ISSN) 1558223x (eISSN)
Vol. In PressSubject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Computer Sciences
Human Computer Interaction
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
DOI
10.1109/MRA.2025.3620148