Robots for Good: Ethical guidelines and standardization for the design and deployment of societally beneficial assistive robots

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Robots for Good: Ethical guidelines and standardization for the design and deployment of societally beneficial assistive robots

Do you think  that robots will make the world a better place? Do you trust that robot creators are working to benefit society? Come to our workshop to hear from experts and actively discuss how we can make sure that we know what’s going on in the robot design process, and that the robots around us are ones we can trust to embody our societal values and needs. Engage with leading researchers in developing the process for ensuring that the robots around us are “good”. What does “good” mean? Come and tell us what you think.

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This panel brings together leading experts in the field of social robot to discuss ethical considerations and standardization in the context of socially assistive robots. 

This is a crucial conversation as we prepare for the widespread deployment of socially assistive robots. 

Hear from experts and actively discuss how we can make sure that we know what’s going on in the robot design process, and that the robots around us are ones we can trust to embody our societal values and needs. We aim to have the audience engage with leading researchers in developing the process for ensuring that the robots around us are “good”. What does “good” mean? We’ll talk about it in the workshop.  

Prior to the workshop, attendees should read our short position paper Robots for good, and come with their thoughts on it to be discussed at the workshop. Our interactive workshop will run from 15:00 to 18:00 on Thursday May 30th. It will be an opportunity to network with peers, researchers, people from industry, policy makers and the general public interested in ethical considerations in the development of socially assistive robots. 

The organizers of this workshop are Selma Sabanovic, Vicky Charisi, Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Robin Murphy, Cindy Bethel, Maja Mataric, and Leigh Levinson.

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