Three years of collaboration with the School of Design - Politecnico di Milano
Three years of collaboration synthesized in a short video! - Leggi
Leggi in Italiano
See also: all meeting and lesson videos and The Self At Your Wrist.
Categorie Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Roboethics, Responsibility and Science, New Technologies, Nanotechnology, Innovation and Responsibility, genetics, Design, biotechnology, Bioethics, enhancement
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
Leggi in Italiano
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
Leggi in Italiano
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
Read also: Roboethics' blog and Robotics: a new science
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
Read also: Robotics. A new science by Fiorella Operto
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
See also: Roboethics blog
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
Read also: Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois

Categorie Publications
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
See also: Robot: il corpo e l'anima, a dialogue with Fiorella Operto by Borrello and Correale Santacroce, and Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale
Leggi in Italiano
Categorie Roboethics
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
Vedi anche: Robot: il corpo e l'anima, il dialogo con Fiorella Operto di Borrello e Correale Santacroce e Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale
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Categorie Roboethics, Robotica
Robotics: a new science
- Leggi
See also: dialogo on line con Fiorella Operto (in Italian)