Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among
roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents …

The ethical aspects of robotics have recently gained sufficient importance to be debated in
international forums and to be endowed with their own collective nametag—roboethics …

What is robot ethics? The term may cause perplexity; according to some ethical views, it
seems to be a field of study without an object to study (as some gibe at astrobiology or …

This paper examines the ethical pitfalls and challenges that non-ethicists, such as
researchers and programmers in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence and …

There are at least three things we might mean by “ethics in robotics”: the ethical systems
built into robots, the ethics of people who design and use robots, and the ethics of how …

Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range
from sex to war. Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to …

Among ethicists and engineers within robotics there is an ongoing discussion as to whether
ethical robots are possible or even desirable. We answer both of these questions in the …

In previous work, drawing on virtue ethics, I have argued that we may demonstrate morally
significant vices in our treatment of robots. Even if an agent's “cruel” treatment of a robot has …

Introduction to Robot Ethics | part of Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of
Robotics | MIT Press books | IEEE Xplore Introduction to Robot Ethics Abstract: This chapter …

Should we grant rights to artificially intelligent robots? Most current and near-future robots do
not meet the hard criteria set by deontological and utilitarian theory. Virtue ethics can avoid …