Fondazione Giannino Bassetti

Three years of collaboration with the School of Design - Politecnico di Milano

Three years of collaboration synthesized in a short video! - More

by Redazione FGB, Tommaso Correale Santacroce, 11 July 2017 Permalink

Three years of collaboration with the School of Design - Politecnico di Milano

Categories Bioethics, Design, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Nanotechnology, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics, biotechnology, enhancement, genetics

Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics and Annual VIRI meeting

The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:Law, Policy and Ethics will be held at the new Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ between May 17-19, 2017, with Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins in attendance to report on proceedings. - More

by Redazione FGB, 26 April 2017 Permalink

Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies

Bernd Stahl, Recent Articles of Interest

In this article Jonathan Hankins looks at 2 recent Stahl articles about Responsible Research and Innovation. - More

by Jonathan Hankins, 22 October 2013 Permalink

Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics

Commercial Drone Management and Regulation

Drones have become much smaller and cheaper and this has lead to suggestions that their use on mass will present privacy issues for the general public. - More

by Jonathan Hankins, 8 November 2012 Permalink

Categories Innovation and politics, Roboethics

How Automation is Changing the Economy, a Debate.

In this post Jonathan Hankins reviews a live discussion forum entitled "The New Economy: How Automation is Changing the Game". - More

by Jonathan Hankins, 8 October 2012 Permalink

Categories Conference, Design, Roboethics

Drones and other robots of war

Recently the press has been full of articles addressing the legality or illegality of the military use of unmanned drone aircraft in the war against terror. Their use as well as the use of other human controlled robot weaponry presents a series of ethical, moral, technical and legal problems, often more down to the way they are deployed than the actual machines themselves. - More

by Jonathan Hankins, 4 March 2010 Permalink

Robotics. A new science

On 20th February an important conference on robotics took place in Rome entitled "Robotics: A New Science". The event was conceived as a seminar whose objective was that of discussing the contemporary development of robotics within the framework of recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software and electronics sectors. In this article Fiorella Operto explains the principal points of discussion. - More

by Fiorella Operto, 15 May 2008 Permalink

See also: Robot: il corpo e l'anima, a dialogue with Fiorella Operto by Borrello and Correale Santacroce, and Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale

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Categories Roboethics

Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 3)

(...continues from the previous entry) Ubois: Do you see -- I mean, another direction I could see this going is in the ways the lines between warfare and law enforcement... - More

by Jeff Ubois, 18 January 2008 Permalink

Categories Interview, Roboethics

Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 2)

(...continues from the previous entry) Ubois: It's an interesting question of when should you essentially exit a field or exit certain social or power structures, because you can't abide by... - More

by Jeff Ubois, 15 January 2008 Permalink

Categories Interview, Roboethics

Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 1)

Dr. Ronald Arkin is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory. In this discussion, he outlines the... - More

by Jeff Ubois, 12 January 2008 Permalink