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#430755 Designing soft robots: Ethics-based ...

Soft-bodied robots offer the possibility for social engagement, and novel tactile human-robot interactions that require careful consideration of the potential for misplaced emotional attachments and personally and socially destructive behavior by users. The ethical challenges related to human-robot interactions and how these should contribute to soft robotics design in the context of social interaction are discussed in a compelling new article in Soft Robotics. Continue reading

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#427993 Robot ethics is about humans

Kate Darling, Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center and the Yale Information Society Proje, talks about her research on people’s instinctual and emotional perception of robots.

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