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From Robot ethics to ethical robots

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  • Wednesday, 24 June 2015
  • 18:00
  • Duration: 14 mins
  • Publication date: 10 Jul 2015
  • Location: NA, Science Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Robot Ethics: Personal Perspectives

About the session

Professor Alan Winfield, Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol, and visiting professor, University of York.

Three years ago Professor Winfield believed it was not possible, in principle, to build an ethical robot. He will share a personal journey from robot ethics; looking at how roboticists must be ethical and explain the idea of ethical robots - that is, how we can, and should, explore the possibility that robots themselves can be ethical agents.

Keywords:
  • mechatronics
  • robot
  • robotics
  • robots
  • tpn

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