Roboethics

Roboethics is the word officially used for the first time in 2004, in Sanremo, Italy, at the First International Symposium on Roboethics. The event proposed a technical committee (TC) on roboethics, with the aim of providing the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) with a framework for supporting the establishment of shared tools for managing new and ethical issues. The 2005 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) organized by TC in Barcelona, Spain, placed emphasis on the subject of roboethics. These events have found that roboethics is crucial not only for the society as a whole but also for the technoscientific development of robotics. The prospective ability of learning in personal robots underlines the theoretical and practical limitation in our ability to explain, predict, and control the behavior of autonomous learning robots in their interactions with humans.