Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Making robotic autonomy through science and law?

Research

Electronic data

  • Embedding event on robot autonomy

    Rights statement: This report is freely available for fair use (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use).

    Accepted author manuscript, 752 KB, PDF document

Keywords

View graph of relations

Making robotic autonomy through science and law?

Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Commissioned report

Published

Standard

Making robotic autonomy through science and law? / Rommetveit, Kjetil; Gunnarsdottir, Kristrun; Dijk, Niels van et al.
University of Bergen, 2014. 31 p.

Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Commissioned report

Harvard

Rommetveit, K, Gunnarsdottir, K, Dijk, NV & Smits, M 2014, Making robotic autonomy through science and law? vol. A report on the EPINET Embedding Workshop, Utrecht 16-17 Feb 2014 (EPINET Deliverable D4.2)., University of Bergen.

APA

Rommetveit, K., Gunnarsdottir, K., Dijk, N. V., & Smits, M. (2014). Making robotic autonomy through science and law? University of Bergen.

Vancouver

Rommetveit K, Gunnarsdottir K, Dijk NV, Smits M. Making robotic autonomy through science and law? University of Bergen, 2014. 31 p.

Author

Rommetveit, Kjetil ; Gunnarsdottir, Kristrun ; Dijk, Niels van et al. / Making robotic autonomy through science and law?. University of Bergen, 2014. 31 p.

Bibtex

@book{54ccd3fdb23443dca7312d2c3536f666,
title = "Making robotic autonomy through science and law?",
abstract = "This document reports on the Epinet workshop on the making of robot autonomy, held in Utrecht 16-17 February 2014. The workshop was part of a case study focused on developments in this area, in particular, autonomy for assistive robots in care and companionship roles. Our participants were of relevant expertise and professional experience: law and ethics, academic and industry robotics, vision assessment and science and technology studies (STS). The workshop was intended to explore the expectations of robot autonomy amongst our participants, against a backdrop of recent policy views and research trends that are openly pushing an agenda of {"}smarter{"}, more dynamic and more autonomous systems (e.g. European Commission, 2008; EUROP, 2009; Robot Companions for Citizens, 2012). Robotics development is intimately connected with visions of robot autonomy, however, as a practical achievement, robot autonomy remains till this day part real, part promise. Ideas of robot autonomy are nevertheless powerful societally and culturally-specific visions, even if the very notion of {"}autonomy{"} is vague and inconsistent in recent accounts of future robots. These accounts still come together with considerable force in directing the efforts of researchers and experimenters, for example, in establishing funding priorities. They have a function in strategic planning for future developments. Accounts of future robots are also informing and shaping the efforts of legislators, ethicists and lawyers. To that effect, one can say that there is an official vision of future robots, a yardstick with which everyone implicated in robotics development has to measure their expectations.",
keywords = "Robot autonomy , Legal agency, Care, Artificial companions, Technical problems, Ethics, ELSi, Law, Human-robot interaction, Data protection, Technology convergence, Robotics, Public engagement, Imaginaries, Innovation, Governance, Policy making",
author = "Kjetil Rommetveit and Kristrun Gunnarsdottir and Dijk, {Niels van} and Martijntje Smits",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
volume = "A report on the EPINET Embedding Workshop, Utrecht 16-17 Feb 2014 (EPINET Deliverable D4.2).",
publisher = "University of Bergen",

}

RIS

TY - BOOK

T1 - Making robotic autonomy through science and law?

AU - Rommetveit, Kjetil

AU - Gunnarsdottir, Kristrun

AU - Dijk, Niels van

AU - Smits, Martijntje

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This document reports on the Epinet workshop on the making of robot autonomy, held in Utrecht 16-17 February 2014. The workshop was part of a case study focused on developments in this area, in particular, autonomy for assistive robots in care and companionship roles. Our participants were of relevant expertise and professional experience: law and ethics, academic and industry robotics, vision assessment and science and technology studies (STS). The workshop was intended to explore the expectations of robot autonomy amongst our participants, against a backdrop of recent policy views and research trends that are openly pushing an agenda of "smarter", more dynamic and more autonomous systems (e.g. European Commission, 2008; EUROP, 2009; Robot Companions for Citizens, 2012). Robotics development is intimately connected with visions of robot autonomy, however, as a practical achievement, robot autonomy remains till this day part real, part promise. Ideas of robot autonomy are nevertheless powerful societally and culturally-specific visions, even if the very notion of "autonomy" is vague and inconsistent in recent accounts of future robots. These accounts still come together with considerable force in directing the efforts of researchers and experimenters, for example, in establishing funding priorities. They have a function in strategic planning for future developments. Accounts of future robots are also informing and shaping the efforts of legislators, ethicists and lawyers. To that effect, one can say that there is an official vision of future robots, a yardstick with which everyone implicated in robotics development has to measure their expectations.

AB - This document reports on the Epinet workshop on the making of robot autonomy, held in Utrecht 16-17 February 2014. The workshop was part of a case study focused on developments in this area, in particular, autonomy for assistive robots in care and companionship roles. Our participants were of relevant expertise and professional experience: law and ethics, academic and industry robotics, vision assessment and science and technology studies (STS). The workshop was intended to explore the expectations of robot autonomy amongst our participants, against a backdrop of recent policy views and research trends that are openly pushing an agenda of "smarter", more dynamic and more autonomous systems (e.g. European Commission, 2008; EUROP, 2009; Robot Companions for Citizens, 2012). Robotics development is intimately connected with visions of robot autonomy, however, as a practical achievement, robot autonomy remains till this day part real, part promise. Ideas of robot autonomy are nevertheless powerful societally and culturally-specific visions, even if the very notion of "autonomy" is vague and inconsistent in recent accounts of future robots. These accounts still come together with considerable force in directing the efforts of researchers and experimenters, for example, in establishing funding priorities. They have a function in strategic planning for future developments. Accounts of future robots are also informing and shaping the efforts of legislators, ethicists and lawyers. To that effect, one can say that there is an official vision of future robots, a yardstick with which everyone implicated in robotics development has to measure their expectations.

KW - Robot autonomy

KW - Legal agency

KW - Care

KW - Artificial companions

KW - Technical problems

KW - Ethics

KW - ELSi

KW - Law

KW - Human-robot interaction

KW - Data protection

KW - Technology convergence

KW - Robotics

KW - Public engagement

KW - Imaginaries

KW - Innovation

KW - Governance

KW - Policy making

M3 - Commissioned report

VL - A report on the EPINET Embedding Workshop, Utrecht 16-17 Feb 2014 (EPINET Deliverable D4.2).

BT - Making robotic autonomy through science and law?

PB - University of Bergen

ER -