Category Archives: Robots

We’ve now got the first batch of papers online:

• Lisa Shay, Gregory Conti, Woodrow Hartzog, John Nelson & Dominic Larkin, Confronting Automated Law Enforcement
• F. Patrick Hubbard, Regulation of Liability For Risks of Physical Injury From “Sophisticated Robots”
• Sinziana Gutiu, Sex Robots and Roboticization of Consent
• Kristen Thomasen, Liar Liar Pants on Fire! Examining the Constitutionality of Enhanced Robo-Interrogation
• Josh Storrs Hall, Machine Agency
• Ajung Moon, Ergun Calisgan, Fiorella Operto, Gianmarco Veruggio & H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, Open Roboethics: Establishing an Online Community for Accelerated Policy and Design Change

More soon.

Today’s robopromo is Amir Rahmani on, “Micro Aerial Vehicles: Opportunity or Liability”. It begins:

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) pose a number of legal and regulatory issues when operating in national airspace. As a result, Congress tasked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with safely integrating UASs into our national airspace by 2014. However, Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), which are small to medium-sized UASs, present additional concerns because they do not qualify for the 2014 FAA integration.

I think this sounds bad for the taco copter?

The big news today is that the papers have started coming in, and as they are received I’m linking to them not only from the relevant robopromos but also from the We Robot Program page. I hope to have them all Real Soon Now.

Today’s robopromo: Sinziana Gutiu on “Sex Robots and Roboticization of Consent”. And yes, there’s a paper linked to from there.

I hear we’re down to about a dozen spaces left for the general public, plus a few more for the U. Miami registrants.

Today’s robopromo: Kristen Thomasen on “Liar Liar Pants on Fire! Examining the Constitutionality of Enhanced Robo-Interrogation”.

We have landed a major We Robot sponsor and are in talks with others. If you haven any interest in being a sponsor, or know of a potential sponsor, please get in touch.

Latest robopromo: François Xavier Albouy & Olivier Lecomte on “We Robot: Setting up the Legal and Social Framework for the ‘Robocalisation’”.

Only 17 places left as of this morning….

We’ve updated the attendance count on the registration page, and as of this morning there were only 19 places left for the general public, plus a few seats reserved for the press, and for the UM community.

New robopromo today: Suneil M. Thomas on “Liquid Robots”.

New presentation teaser online today: Lisa A. Shay, Gregory Conti, Woodrow Hartzog, John Nelson, & Dominic Larkin on “Confronting Automated Law Enforcement”.