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From Robot ethics to ethical robots

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  • Wednesday, 24 June 2015
  • 18:24 - 18:24
  • 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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  • Alan FT Winfield

    Alan FT Winfield

    UWE Bristol, & visiting prof.University of York, Prof. of Electronic Engineering & Director of the Scie

    Alan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He conducts research in cognitive robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science and technology. His latest book, Robotics: A Very Short Introduction, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2012, and he blogs about robots, open science and related topics at http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/
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