RoboEthicsProposer: Scuola di Robotica, Genoa, Italy; Accepted: Feb 2005. Website. Contact person: Fiorella Operto info@scuoladirobotica.it Abstract of ApplicationWe apply for a Research Atelier on Roboethics - Roboethics Atelier - to develop the concept of an Ethics applied to Robotics. The Atelier will last one working week, possibly in late June 2005. It will be attended by about 30 participants (Senior Scientists and PhD Students) coming from different fields of research, both from Sciences and Humanities. The result will be a Roboethics Roadmap Book. Robotics is rapidly becoming one of the leading field of science and technology. We can forecast that in the XXI century humanity will coexist with the first alien intelligence we have ever come in contact with -robots. It will be an event rich in ethical, social and economic problems. Public opinion is already asking questions such as: "Could a robot do "good" or "evil"?"; "Could robots be dangerous for humankind?". In January 2004, Scuola di Robotica organized the First International Symposium on Roboethics (www.roboethics.org). The success and the important follow-ups of that event encouraged the partners of this proposal to design a more continuous and systematic approach: the Roboethics Atelier inside EURON. The Roboethics Atelier will apply, in the Robotics field, the EC directives on the subject of Ethics. Actually, the Action Plan "Science and Society" specifies some of the principles which should govern researches in science and technology. In this context, the Atelier will analyze the effects of Robotics, from those principles, in the applications fields where the potential problems are more important and evident. The first aim of the Atelier on Robotics is to produce a Roadmap of Roboethics, and lay the foundation for the creation of the Roboethics Committee inside Beyond Robotics Initiative. The Atelier will create the appropriate framework in EURON II to address the ethical issues in the ongoing Beyond Robotics projects COGNIRON (Cognitive Robot Companion) and NEUROBOTICS (the fusion of Neuroscience and Robotics for augmenting human capabilities). Current Status and ResultsUp-to-date information about this project can be found on the Roboethics website. All the papers and other work presented at the ICRA'07 Workshop on Roboethics have been uploaded. In June 2006 the Euron Roboethics Atelier Project finished. The result of the project was a Roboethics Roadmap, produced and reviewed by the Atelier participants. The Roadmap second release 1.1 was circulated among about 50 experts in Computer Ethics and Scholars of Philosophy, plus some roboticists from the EURON Meeting in Palermo. Their comments resulted in version 2 of the Roadmap. The final version of the Euron Roboethics Roadmap (Release 2.0) will be officially presented during the Roboethics Workshop at ICRA07, organized by the IEEE TC on Roboethics. Please feel free to download your own copy of the Roadmap andsubmit comments to the coordinators info AT scuoladirobotica.it with "Roboethics" in the subject field. We thank you in advance for taking time to go through the Roadmap, for your comments, criticisms, insertions, and suggestions. Because of the length of the Roadmap, and of the number of contributions to be collected, we ask you to write a separated file, referring to the numbers of paragraphs for your notes. Roboethics in the Press...Science editorial from Nov 2007. BBC on Roboethics 9th March 2007. The story started with South Korea's robot ethics charter on 7th March. National Geographic article from 16th March. Other LinksEuron Roboethics Roadmap in Roboethics at Stanford University. |
Funded ProjectsCall 4 : Open call for PRPs and SIGsFunding cancelled by EU. Call 3 (deadline April 2006)No proposal fitted the criteria well enough to receive funding. Call 2 (deadline April 2005)
Call 1 (deadline October 2004)
Other Multicentre Robotics Research ProjectsSelected FET 5th Framework Programme robotics projects |
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