CS 4002
Robots and Society
Useful Links
Ethical Implications of Robotics & Professional Responsibility
Technology kills worker
Man shot by killer Robot
Responsible conduct in research
Roboethics database
Human Rights for Robots?
Adding Ethics To Engineering Education
Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan
10 stats you should know about robots but never bothered googling up
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?
Robot Ethics: A View from the Philosophy of Science by Guglielmo Tamburrini
BBC: Robots could demand legal rights
J
ust Ahead: The Robotics Revolution
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
What can you legally take from the web?
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
Creating friendly AI
Ethical AI Patented
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
International treaty to limit war robots
Robots remake battlefield
Sea Predator
Robosoldier
Remote controlled RAF Reaper
Korea plans for an Unmanned Aircraft
MAARS-Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System
Non-Answer on Armed Robot Pullout From Iraq Reveals Fragile Bot Industry
Killer Robots... Friend or foe?
Who needs security when you have a robot?
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DoD 25 year roadmap for unmanned vehicles
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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
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
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
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
Japanese robots enter daily life
Best 50 Movie Robots
Robot mannequins strike a pose
Festival for Cocktail-Robotics
The Golem by Michael Koenig
Companion Robots
Cooking Robots
Japanese creates female Android
When Science meets beauty
Robotic Surrogates
Robots should be slaves
Making friends with robots
Medical and Assistive Robotics
Doctors attack NHS ban on £3m robot cancer surgeon
Exoskeletons are on the march
Robo Prosthetics
Brain Machine Interface Technology
Robot surgery - reassuring or scary?
ORLive Presents: Robot-Assisted Gynecologic Oncology Surgery (Warning: graphic material)
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
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Sexual activity and robotics
Twists in sexual activity of Robots
Love and Sex With Robots Author on Colbert
Inventor unveils $7,000 talking sex robot
Virtual cheating
Robo Girlfriend
Preoccupations with Robots
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
SoftBots
Robots in the Web: threat or treat?
Robotics in general
GeckoSystems' Elder Care Robot
Self aware systems
Engineering Pathway
Minds,Machines and Persons
Special Report-The singularity
Computer Programs Decide Humans' Fates, Set Social Policy, Panelists Say