This article investigates the social significance of robotics for the years to come in Europe
and the US by studying robotics developments in five different areas: the home, health care …

Debates on lethal autonomous weapon systems have proliferated in the past 5 years.
Ethical concerns have been voiced about a possible raise in the number of wrongs and …

Success in the quest for artificial intelligence has the potential to bring unprecedented
benefits to humanity, and it is therefore worthwhile to investigate how to maximize these …

This article considers the recent literature concerned with establishing an international
prohibition on autonomous weapon systems. It seeks to address concerns expressed by …

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Ugo Pagallo Crimes, Contracts, and Torts Page 2 The Laws of Robots Page 3 Law …

Expounding on the results of the author's work with the US Army Research Office, DARPA,
the Office of Naval Research, and various defense industry contractors, Governing Lethal …

Military robots and other, potentially autonomous robotic systems such as unmanned
combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) could soon be …

Many recent studies (eg, IFR: International Federation of Robotics, 2016) predict that the
number of robots (industrial, service/social, intelligent/autonomous) will increase …

A variety of ethical objections have been raised against the military employment of
uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs, drones). Some of these objections are technological …

Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are emerging as key technologies of future warfare.
So far, academic debate concentrates on the legal-ethical implications of AWS but these do …