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Robots: The Law
     



 

Ryan Calo is a senior research fellow at Stanford Law School who has specialized in robotics
and the law. In his interview with the Robots podcast he discusses
liability issues in robotics: Should manufacturers, users or even robots
be responsible for robots and their actions? Why does current US
liability legislation hinder the robotics industry to live up to its
full potential? Is there a good model for changing it? And what could
trigger such a change? The second half of the interview looks towards
the (near and far) future: How do robots roaming our home and workplace
affect our privacy? What happens to potentially sensitive material such
as images and sounds stored in a robot's memory? And at what stage do
robots qualify as intelligent agents and acquire legal rights of their
own? For answers to these and more questions check out the Robots
interview, or have a look at Ryan
Calo's blog and Twitter feed.

   

http://robots.net/article/3060.html