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P. Kopacek:
"Ethical and Social Aspects of Robots";
in: "IFAC World Congress 2014", issued by: International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-902823-62-5, 11425 - 11430.

Robotics is a very fast growing field especially in the last years and is a discipline based on: Mechanics, Physics/Mathematics, Control Engineering, Electr(on)ics, Computer Science. Therefore robots are frequently used as examples for Mechatronic Systems. Robotics unifies two cultures: Science and Humanities. The effort to design Roboethics should make the unity of these two cultures a primary assumption. This means that experts shall view Robotics as a whole - in spite of the current early stage which recalls a melting pot. Some decades ago social aspects of robotics were discussed. Because of the results and the rapid development of this field ethical issues became more and more important. Therefore the term Roboethics was introduced in the literature. In this contribution an overview from a practical viewpoint will be given. Starting with a short presentation of currently and in the future available robots some ideas about the ethical problems are discussed. Special emphasis is on the ethical behavior of the system "human-robot" and the "End of Life - EoL" management.

Ethics; Culture; Ethnicity

http://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00857

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_233101.pdf