How do we ensure robots serve people responsibly? Lydia Kavraki, University Professor and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, co-edited a special issue of @ieeeras.bsky.social's magazine on #robotethics — exploring safety, regulation and human-centered design. bit.ly/4b42hVM

At Art Basel, Elon Musk, Andy Warhol and Jeff Bezos are reimagined as robotic, picture-pooping dogs | CNN The half-humanoid-half-canine creatures look like something out of a cyberpunk game — or a fever dream. But they aren’t roving your nightmares (yet). Instead they are on the floor of one of the wealth...

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Definitely watch the video to get the full effect.
#AIethics #robotethics

The Ethics of AI Companionship: Friend or Fallacy? The Ethics of AI Companionship: Friend, Foe, or Something Else Entirely? It's 10 PM. You've had a long, frustrating day. You just want to vent to someone who will listen…

The Ethics of AI Companionship: Friend or Fallacy? #AIfriends #futureofcompanionship #parasocialrelationships #AIrelationships #AIchatbotethics #simulatedemotions #humanAIinteraction #AImentalhealth #robotethics #artificialintelligenceethics

'I would never let a robot incubate my child': Poll on 'pregnancy robots' divides Live Science readers Live Science readers reveal whether they would use a hypothetical

'I would never let a robot incubate my child': Poll on 'pregnancy robots' divides Live Science readers #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #PregnancyRobots #RobotEthics #OpinionsOnTechnology

Tesla's Optimus Robot: Popcorn Server or Privacy Invader?

#TeslaOptimus #RobotEthics #FutureTech #PrivacyDebate #HollywoodDiner #UnreadWhyInsights #trendingvideo #LatestNews #latestupdates #news #shorts 
#Reels #WATCH #Breaking #BreakingNews

Ran into Tally, the grocery store inventory-checking robot at Martin’s in South Bend, IN. (Sorry about the overly quick video. Simone was coming and I felt weird recording it!) Will post in the comments a news segment about Tally in another grocery store.) #robots #aiethics #robotethics

Dang! @ncstate.bsky.social’s bookBot, a robotic library storage & retrieval system on their engineering campus, is very cool. Maybe a good way to, y’know, actually continue to store physical books in a library? Would like to know more about this robotic system! #academicsky #robotethics #techethics

🤖 SAFE & SOUND is helping ensure social robots behave safely and ethically—especially when lives, care, and emotions are involved.
#SocialRobots #RobotEthics #CareTech

I gave a presentation on the concepts of "inochi" (life) and the animated persona, and their application to robots, at the Embassy of the Netherlands, Tokyo. The event was organized by Matthew Dennis from Eindhoven University of Technology. #philosophy #robots #robotethics

Professor of Robot Ethics, @alan-winfield.bsky.social recently attended the inaugural conference of the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI in Paris.

In his guest blog post, he writes about this remarkable meeting.

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#AI #EthicalAI #RobotEthics #Robotics

The first slide of a presentation, with the title "Robotic Mental Well-being Coaches: Design and Ethical Recommendations". The authors are Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, and Hatice Gunes.

Our work on design and ethical recommendations for robotic mental well-being coaches was presented by Prof. Gunes at #HRI2025, at the T-HRI invited talks session! Sad I couldn't be there in person, fingers crossed for the next HRI...

Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

#robotethics #AIethics

On the ethical governance of swarm robotic systems in the real world | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences In this paper, we address the question: what practices would be required for the responsible design and operation of real-world swarm robotic systems? We argue that swarm robotic systems must be developed and operated within a framework of ethical ...

New paper out in which I, @sabinehauert.bsky.social, Matimba Swarma & Jonathan Ives take a deep dive into responsible swarm robotics. We set out for the first time a framework for the ethical governance of real-world swarms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #AIethics #robotethics #robot

Are Social Robots Deceptive? It’s Complicated… There is increasing interest in social robots as assistive technologies to support a wide range of potential user groups.  Nevertheless, the widespread use of robots has been challenged in ter…

Are social robots deceptive? In this new blog post, I argue that social robots are not deceptive when they are designed to respect some important principles based on a relational view of ethics tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/15/d...
#robotics #socialrobots #robotethics

I just returned from #Japan, where I gave a talk on moral rights for #robots and participated on a panel on Regulating Social Robots at Kyushu University. I met so many great people working on #robotethics. Special thanks to Yueh-Hsuan Weng for letting me hang out with your Lovot!