[robotics-worldwide] Final Program of ICRA Workshop on RoboEthics

[Jorge Solis]

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                Final Program of ICRA Workshop on RoboEthics

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This full-day workshop will be held at ICRA 2009 in Kobe, on May 17th, 2009.
For further details, please access the workshop home page at:

http://www.roboethics.org/icra2009/


9:00  - 9:30	INVITED SPEAKER: GEORGE BEKEY
			University of Southern California, USA
			Military Robotics: Technology, Risks and Ethical
Issues

9:30  - 9:50 	R.C. Arkin
			Operator Responsibility and Lethality in Autonomous
Combat Robotic System

9:50  - 10:10	J. P. Sullins
			Roboethics and Telerobotic Weapons Systems

10:10 - 10:30	R. Murphy 
			Safety-Oriented Alternatives to Asimovs Three Law of
Robotics

10:30 - 10:50	COFFEE BREAK

10:50 - 11:10	M. Scheutz 
			The Inherent Dangers of Unidirectional Emotional
Bonds

11:10 - 11:30	S. Bringsjord, et. al
			Piagetian Roboethics via Category Theory: Moving
Beyond Mere Formal Operations to
			Engineer Robots Whose Decisions are Guaranteed to be
Ethically Correct

11:30 - 11:50	L. Hinman
			Robotic Companions

11:50 - 12:10	J. Solis, A. Takanishi
			New Challenges for the Implementation of RoboEthics
Education in Japan

12:10 - 12:40	PANEL OF DISCUSSION I

12:40 - 13:40	LUNCH BREAK

13:40 - 14:10	INVITED SPEAKER: MASAKATSU G. FUJIE
			Waseda University, Japan
			Experiences on Ethical and Legal Issues on
Medical/Welfare Robotics in Japan

14:10 - 14:30	G. Veruggio and F. Operto
			Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues in the European
Strategic Research 
			Agenda of the Coordination Action for Robotics in
Europe

14:30 - 14:50	G. Dodig-Crnkovic
			Delegating Responsibilities to Intelligent Robots 
14:50 - 15:10	A. Takanishi
			Some Issues on Social Acceptability of Humanoids in
Japan

15:10 - 15:30 	COFFEE BREAK

15.30 - 15:50	T. Kimura
			Perennial Questions in Technological Era: Cultural
			and Philosophical Framework of Roboethics

15:50 - 16:10	T. Nomura
			Who and under What Context Requires "Roboethics"?
			From Cross-Cultural Perspective on Assumptions about
Robots

16:10 - 16:30	R.M. Geraci
			Religion and the Public Role of Robotics

16:30 - 17:00	PANEL OF DISCUSSION II

Sincerely,
ICRA'09 Workshop on RoboEthics Organization Committee

Gianmarco Veruggio
Ron Arkin
Atsuo Takanishi
Jorge Solis
Fiorella Operto
Matthias Scheutz