CS 4002
Robots and Society
Useful Links

• Ethical Implications of Robotics & Professional Responsibility
  • *NEW*Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan
  • *NEW*10 stats you should know about robots but never bothered googling up
  • *NEW* Man, 81, kills himself with shot from 'suicide robot'
  • Machine and Man: Ethics and Robotics in the 21st Century
  • AAAI: Ethical and Social Implications
  • Bill Joy Report (Act Now to Keep New Technologies Out of Destructive Hands)
  • Promise and Peril (Rebuttal to Bill Joy Article, by Kurzweil)
  • Are We Spiritual Machines? (By George Gilder and Jay W. Richards)
  • Wired Article: Robots and the Rest of Us by Bruce Sterling
  • TechNetCast: Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?
  • Robots and Society (British Council)
  • Ethical Issues in Robotics, Bionics, and AI by Guglielmo Tamburrini
  • BBC: Robots could demand legal rights
  • Top 5 Creepiest Robot Clones
  • Waiting for the Great Leap ... Forward? by J. Hughes
  • A Robot in Every Home: The leader of the PC revolution predicts that the next hot field will be robotics (by Bill Gates)
  • Human and Machine Dignity
    
  • Sal Restivo papers
  • Pleo is Here! But how much punishment can a dinosaur robot take?
  • Wired Article: Robots and the Rest of Us
  • Robots evolve and learn how to lie (Discovery Magazine)
  • Organizations / Conferences
    • Robot Ethics Lab (UBC)
    • Roboethics Website
    • Machine Ethics Consortium
    • The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
      • Creating Friendly AI 1.0
    • ICRA 2005 Workshop on Robo-Ethics
    • Social and Ethical Implications in Nanotechnology
  • Cognitive/Computational Models & Architectures
    • Ethical AI Patent
    • The Economist: Posing the right question (The neurology of morality is being explored)
    • WSJ Article: Scientists Draw Link Between Morality And Brain's Wiring
    • Motivation and Emotion in Behavior-Based Robots

• Robotics and Defense
  • *NEW* Non-Answer on Armed Robot Pullout From Iraq Reveals Fragile Bot Industry
  • *NEW* Killer Robots... Friend or foe?
  • *NEW* Who needs security when you have a robot? (second link)
  • DoD 25 year roadmap for unmanned vehicles. (PDF Document)
  • Command Assesses Robot to Help Save Soldiers' Lives
  • Tiny Robot Carries Big Responsibility in Iraq
  • IED Robot (MARCbot)
  • Wired Article: More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty
  • Ethics dilemma in killer bots
  • The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
  • New Laws of Robotics proposed for US kill-bots
  • Washington Post: Bots on The Ground
  • ISA Consulting: Terminator technologies
  • Viper and Heron- Israel's latest war robots
  • Intelligent Surveillance & Security Guard Robot
  • The Problematic Nexus:
    Where Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles and the Law of Armed Conflict Meet by John J. Klein, LCDR USN
  • 'Reaper' moniker given to MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle
    
  • http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/12822.pdf
    
  • Israel deploys robo-snipers on Gaza border
    
  • Wired Blogspot: Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
  • Gun-Toting Ground Robots See Action in Iraqi Streets
  • MQ-9 Reaper (originally the RQ-9 Predator B)
    Atlanta Magazine Article: The Mind of the Machine
    
  • Computer Magazine Article: Automated Killers and the Computing Profession
  • Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
  • CNN Money Article: Killer robots could replace soldiers
    
  • Field Results for Tactical Mobile Robot Missions

• Entertainment Robots
  • *NEW* Japanese robots enter daily life
  • Best 50 Movie Robots
  • Robot mannequins strike a pose
  • Festival for Cocktail-Robotics
    
• Medical and Assistive Robotics
  • *NEW* Robot surgery - reassuring or scary?
  • *NEW* ORLive Presents: Robot-Assisted Gynecologic Oncology Surgery
  • *NEW* Doggie Robot Eases Loneliness In Nursing Home Residents As Well As Real Dog
  • NYTimes: A Medical Robot Makes Headway
  • Reuters: Robots turn off senior citizens in aging Japan
  • Amputee Sprinter Denied Olympic Entry (Wired Article)
• Sexual activity and robotics
  • *NEW* IEEE Spectrum special report: Will we humans one day truly love robots just like we love other humans?
  • Cyber Companionship
  • Robot employed as sex club tout
  • 10 Reasons I'd Rather Marry a Robot