The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review
Along with its potential contributions to the practice of care, social assistive robotics raises significant ethical issues. The growing development of this technoscientific field of intelligent robotics has thus triggered a wide-spread proliferation of ethical attention towards its disruptive poten...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/351938 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/351938 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101726 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Human-robot interaction Robotics Artificial intelligence Intelligent robots Service robots Social aspects of automation Care Ethics Healthcare Social assistive robotics Justice Well-being Interacció persona-robot Robòtica Intel·ligència artificial Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Robòtica Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial |
| Sumario: | Along with its potential contributions to the practice of care, social assistive robotics raises significant ethical issues. The growing development of this technoscientific field of intelligent robotics has thus triggered a wide-spread proliferation of ethical attention towards its disruptive potential. However, the current landscape of ethical debate is fragmented and conceptually disordered, endangering ethics’ practical strength for normatively addressing these challenges. This paper presents a critical literature review of the ethical issues of social assistive robotics, which provides a comprehensive and intelligible overview of the current ethical approach to this technoscientific field. On the one hand, ethical issues have been identified, quantitatively analyzed and cate-gorized in three main thematic groups. Namely: Well-being, Care, and Justice. On the other hand –and on the basis of some significant disclosed tendencies of the current approach–, future lines of research and issues regarding the enrichment of the ethical gaze on social assistive robotics have been identified and outlined. |
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