FONDAZIONE GIANNINO BASSETTI

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

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

A Matter of Design: Designing for Reproductive and Regenerative Ethics

The 5th STS Italia Conference was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. Here the video of plenary session by Charis Thompson (London School of Economics). - Leggi 

A Matter of Design: Our Common Future

The 5th STS Italia Conference was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. Here the video of plenary session by KJETIL FALLAN (University of Oslo). - Leggi 

Bernd Stahl, Recent Articles of Interest

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

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". - Leggi 

Prosthetic by choice?

Following on from the arguments raised during the discussion with athlete Marta Milani, this article looks at some of the issues posed by advances in prosthetic technology, and the issue of a patient's choice to amputate a hand in order to have a prosthetic hand fitted. - Leggi 

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. - Leggi 

Springer Handbook of Robotics

On February 5, the "Springer Handbook of Robotics" by Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib has won two awards "PROS Awards 2008". Prose Awards are the American equivalent of the Oscar awards in the scientific and professional field. Inside, a chapter of Veruggio and Operto entitled "Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics" which discusses the basic principles of roboethics, new ethics applied to robotics and robot lemmas. - Leggi 

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. - Leggi 

Robotica. Una nuova scienza

Fiorella Operto propone alcune riflessioni sull'importante convegno "Robotica. Una nuova scienza" che si è svolto in febbraio a Roma presso l'Accademia dei Lincei. Un crescente dibattito internazionale che vuole portare a ripensare in chiave etica un ambito di ricerca, la robotica, profondamente influenzato dai recenti sviluppi scientifici e tecnologici nei settori dell'informatica, delle telecomunicazioni, del software e dei dispositivi elettronici. - Leggi 

Robotics: a new science

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