Marine Robotics and Society

A global interdisciplinary approach to scientific, technological and educational aspects of Marine Robotics will be presented. Robotics is changing our way of li ving and working, and also our method of conducting scientific inquiry. In the XXI century humanity is going to coexist with the first alien intelligence it has come in contact with - robots. This is going to have important ethical, social and economie implications. In the Robotics landscape, marine applications display uniqueness and specificities that may be profitably universalized. Actually in Marine Robotics technological aspects are tightly connected with scientific ones and, more than for other fields, it needs increasing social support and consensus.