Monday, August 15, 2022
SCIENMAG: Latest Science and Health News
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • HOME PAGE
  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
  • MEDICINE
    • Cancer
    • Infectious Emerging Diseases
  • SPACE
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • CONTACT US
  • HOME PAGE
  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
  • MEDICINE
    • Cancer
    • Infectious Emerging Diseases
  • SPACE
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • CONTACT US
No Result
View All Result
Scienmag - Latest science news from science magazine
No Result
View All Result
Home SCIENCE NEWS Technology and Engineering

10th We Robot Conference to canvass emerging law and policy

July 21, 2021
in Technology and Engineering
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

From robot companions to robot rights to smart farming

Machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotic systems are changing our society, our laws, and our social constructs at breakneck speed. We Robot, the annual, interdisciplinary conference on the emerging legal and policy questions relating to robots and the AIs that often control them, returns to University of Miami School of Law, the founding institution, September 23-25, 2021.

The conference unites those on the front lines of robot design, development and deployment with legal policymakers and influencers, and even philosophers, in the legal and social structures in the robotic sphere.

Conference topics keep finger on the pulse of robot law

Marking the 10th anniversary of the conference, We Robot 2021 will present scholarly papers, technological demonstrations and poster session presentations by North American and international academics, practitioners, and others from diverse fields. The unique conference fosters interdisciplinary collaborations between developers of robotics, artificial intelligence, and related technology and experts in the humanities, social science, and law and policy.

Sample themes and topics of this year’s three-day program include:

Robots and health care

“Diverse Patient Perspectives on the Role of AI and Big Data in health care”

“Somebody That I Used to Know: The Risks of Personalizing Robots for Dementia Care”

“Reported Ethical Concerns Over Use of Robots for COVID-19 and Recommendations for Responsible Innovation for Future Pandemics”

Autonomous vehicles

“Driving into the Loop: Mapping Automation Bias & Liability Issues for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems”

“Autonomous Vehicles as Public Infrastructure: Building an ‘AV Development Index’ for Tomorrow’s Cities”

Robot rights and laws

“Debunking Robot Rights: Metaphysically, Ethically and Legally”

“Examining Correlations between Human Empathy and Vicbots”

“Creating Legal Rules for Robots”

“Artificial Intelligence: The Challenges For Criminal Law In Facing The Passage From Technological Automation To Artificial Autonomy”

Robots and the environment

“Smart Farming versus Traditional Knowledge”

“Robots in the Ocean”

Robots and society

“Social Robots and Children’s Fundamental Rights”

“On the Practicalities of Robots in Public Spaces”

Seminal conference and its goals, more relevant than ever

The conference builds on a growing body of scholarship, much of it shaped by earlier editions, which explores how the increasing sophistication and autonomous decision-making capabilities of robots and their widespread deployment, disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking policy issues.

“Robots are moving out of the warehouse and into our lives,” said. A. Michael Froomkin, the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and a co-founder of the conference. “We are just seeing the start of a boom in everything from delivery robots to medical robots, to autonomous military drones deployed in combat.”

With AI and robotics growing so fast and little time to consider their legal, ethical and moral uses, attendees consider the issues raised by robots and their uses in the home, hospitals, business, public spaces, military settings, and beyond.

The purpose of this conference is to continue to frame and report on research agendas relating to the deployment of robots in society, to inform policymakers of the issues, and to help design legal rules that will maximize opportunities and minimize risks arising from the increased deployment of robots in society.

Froomkin echoes the conference’s relevance, “Everywhere a robot goes it creates legal and policy issues that need to be worked out to make the world safe for both robots and especially people.”

###

The conference will be held live and in person at the Newman Alumni Center on the University of Miami Campus from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Registration is open, and early bird rates are available until July 31.

For more information, visit WeRobot2021.com

Media Contact
Catharine Skipp
[email protected]
https://www.law.miami.edu/news/2021/july/robot-companions-robot-rights-smart-farming-10th-we-robot-conference-canvass-emerging

Tags: Mechanical EngineeringResearch/DevelopmentRobotry/Artificial IntelligenceWeaponry
Share25Tweet16Share4ShareSendShare
  • Amanda Poholek, Ph.D.

    Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy

    136 shares
    Share 54 Tweet 34
  • Nuclear war would cause a global famine and kill billions, Rutgers-led study finds

    65 shares
    Share 26 Tweet 16
  • 1 in 3 parents worry that school traffic is a danger for kids

    64 shares
    Share 26 Tweet 16
  • Exercise answer: Research shows it’s how often you do it, not how much

    64 shares
    Share 26 Tweet 16
  • The North American Menopause Society releases its 2022 Hormone Therapy Position Statement

    148 shares
    Share 59 Tweet 37
  • Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal

    383 shares
    Share 153 Tweet 96
ADVERTISEMENT

About us

We bring you the latest science news from best research centers and universities around the world. Check our website.

Latest NEWS

Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy

Experts optimistic about converting coal plants to production of clean geothermal energy

A role for cell ‘antennae’ in managing dopamine signals in the brain

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 193 other subscribers

© 2022 Scienmag- Science Magazine: Latest Science News.

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME PAGE
  • BIOLOGY
  • CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
  • MEDICINE
    • Cancer
    • Infectious Emerging Diseases
  • SPACE
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • CONTACT US

© 2022 Scienmag- Science Magazine: Latest Science News.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In