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. - Leggi
Categorie Roboethics, Innovation and politics
War Machines: Recruiting Robots For Combat
Last week an article appeared in The New York Times entitled "War Machines: Recruiting Robots For Combat". The article addresses a problem that has been debated on this site in the past, that of the ethical considerations that the development of this type of military machine provokes. - Leggi
Read also: Springer Handbook of Robotics, Robotics. A new science and E se il robot...? (in Italian)
Categorie 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. - Leggi
See also: Roboethics blog