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URL:https://oxon.bcs.org/programme/robot-accident-investigation-a-case-stu
 dy-in-responsible-robotics/
SUMMARY:Robot Accident Investigation: a case study in Responsible Robotics
DESCRIPTION:\nPOSTPONED\nAlan Winfield\, Professor of Robot Ethics\, UWE Br
 istol\nRobot accidents are inevitable. Although rare\, they have been happ
 ening since assembly-line robots were first introduced in the 1960s. But a
  new generation of social robots are now becoming commonplace. Often with 
 sophisticated embedded artificial intelligence (AI) social robots might be
  deployed as care robots to assist elderly or disabled people to live inde
 pendently. Smart robot toys offer a compelling interactive play experience
  for children and increasingly capable autonomous vehicles (AVs) the promi
 se of hands-free personal transport and fully autonomous taxis. Unlike ind
 ustrial robots which are deployed in safety cages\, social robots are desi
 gned to operate in human environments and interact closely with humans\; t
 he likelihood of robot accidents is therefore much greater for social robo
 ts than industrial robots. This talk sketches a draft framework for social
  robot accident investigation\; a framework which proposes both the techno
 logy and processes that would allow social robot accidents to be investiga
 ted with no less rigour than we expect of air or rail accident investigati
 ons.\nAlan Winfield\nAlan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the Uni
 versity of the West of England (UWE)\, Bristol\, UK\, Visiting Professor a
 t the University of York\, and Associate Fellow of the Cambridge Centre fo
 r the Future of Intelligence. He received his PhD in Digital Communication
 s from the University of Hull in 1984\, then co-founded and led APD Commun
 ications Ltd until taking-up appointment at UWE\, Bristol in 1992. Alan co
 -founded the Bristol Robotics Laboratory where his current research is foc
 used on the science\, engineering and ethics of cognitive robotics.\n\nAla
 n is passionate about communicating research and ideas in science\, engine
 ering and technology\; he led UK-wide public engagement project Walking wi
 th Robots\, awarded the 2010 Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke medal for 
 public promotion of engineering. Until recently he was director of UWE’s
  Science Communication Unit. Alan is frequently called upon by the press a
 nd media to comment on developments in AI and robotics\; he was a guest on
  the BBC R4 series The Life Scientific and interviewed for BBC News HARDta
 lk.\n\nAlan is an advocate for robot ethics\; he sits on the executive of 
 the IEEE Standards Association Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous a
 nd Intelligent Systems\, and chairs Working Group P7001\, drafting a new I
 EEE standard on Transparency of Autonomous Systems. He is a member of the 
 World Economic Forum Global AI Council. Alan has published over 250 works\
 , including Robotics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press\,
  2012)\; he lectures widely on robotics\, presenting to both academic and 
 public audiences\, and blogs at http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/
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